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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1011223598 Title: Mulata nation : visualizing race and gender in Cuba Author: Alison Fraunhar Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] ©2018 ISBN/ISSN: 9781496814432 1496814436 9781496825667 1496825667 OCLC:1011223598

  
  

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Mulata nation : visualizing race and gender in Cuba

Author:	Alison Fraunhar
Publisher:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] ©2018
Series:	Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 of mulataje not only in elite production such as painting, but also popular forms: popular theater, print culture, later films, and other media where stereotypes take hold. Indeed, in contemporary Cuba, mulataje remains a popular theme with Cubans as well as foreigners in drag shows, reflecting queerness in visual culture"--Provided by publisher.  Read more...
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Subjects	Racially mixed people -- Cuba -- History. Women -- Cuba -- History. Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Cuba -- History. View all subjects
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