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Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba: Caribbean Studies

Autor Alison Fraunhar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2018

Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world.

Widely understood to embody the bridge between European subject and African other, the mulata contains the sensuality attributed to Africans in a body more closely resembling the European ideal of beauty. This symbol bears far-reaching implications, with shifting, contradictory cultural meanings in Cuba. Fraunhar explores these complex paradigms, how, why, and for whom the image was useful, and how it was both subverted and asserted from the colonial period to the present. From the early seventeenth century through Cuban independence in 1899 up to the late revolutionary era, Fraunhar illustrates the ambiguous figure's role in nationhood, citizenship, and commercialism. She analyzes images including key examples of nineteenth-century graphic arts, avant-garde painting and magazine covers of the Republican era, cabaret and film performance, and contemporary iterations of gender.

Fraunhar's study stands out for attending to the phenomenon ofmulatajenot only in elite production such as painting, but also in popular forms: popular theater, print culture, later films, and other media where stereotypes take hold. Indeed, in contemporary Cuba,mulatajeremains a popular theme with Cubans as well as foreigners in drag shows, reflecting queerness in visual culture.
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ISBN-13: 9781496814432
ISBN-10: 1496814436
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI
Colecția Caribbean Studies
Seria Caribbean Studies


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Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world.

Notă biografică

Alison Fraunhar is associate professor of art and design at Saint Xavier University. Her work on Cuban art and culture has been published in such periodicals as Women's Art Journal; Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures; and Hispanic Research Journal, as well as in the edited volume Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity.