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Guarding Cultural Memory: AfroCuban Women in Literature and the Arts (New World Studies)
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In Guarding Cultural Memory, Flora Gonzlez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating postRevolutionary creative endeavors of AfroCuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition.Gonzlez Mandri considers the work of the poet and cultural critic Nancy Morejn, the poet Excilia Saldaa, the filmmaker Gloria Rolando, and the artists Mara Magdalena CamposPons and Belkis Ayn. In their cultural representations these women conflate the artistic, the historical, and the personal to produce a transformative image of the black woman as a forger of Cuban culture. They achieve this in several ways: by redefining autobiography as a creative expression for the convergence of the domestic and the national; by countering the eroticized image of the mulatta in favor of a mythical conception of the female body as a site for the engraving of cultural and national conflicts and resolutions; and by valorizing certain aesthetic and religious traditions in relation to a postmodern artistic sensibilityPlacing these artists in their historical context, Gonzlez Mandri shows how their accomplishments were consistently silenced in official Cuban history and culture and explores the strategies through which culturally censored memories survivedand continue to survivein a Caribbean country purported to have integrated its Hispanic and African peoples and heritages into a Cuban identity. The picture that finally emerges is one not only of exceptional artistic achievement but also of successful redefinitions of concepts of race, gender, and nation in the face of almost insurmountable cultural odds.
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