Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 Family Life ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506719108

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506719108

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959

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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 Family Life ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506719108Blackface Cuba, 1840 1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the teatro bufo, and of related forms of music, dance, and literature, Lane argues that blackface performance was a primary site for the development of mestizaje, Cuba's racialized national ideology, in which