Performing Afro-Cuba Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History

Name: Performing Afro-Cuba Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
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ISBN: 9780226119052

ISBN-10: 022611905X

ISBN-13: 9780226119052

Edition: 2014

Authors: Kristina Wirtz

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Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba’s colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also investigates how this process operates at different spatial and temporal scalesfrom the immediate present to the imagined past, from the barrio to the socialist state. Wirtz analyzes a variety of performances and the ways they construct…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034

Kristina Wirtz is associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santerï¿½a.