Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism

by Vera M. Kutzinski

Overview

How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called mestizaje, and what roles have race, gender, sexuality, and class played in the construction of that synthesis? What specific cultural, political, and economic interests does mestizaje represent? Exploring these and other questions, Vera Kutzinski focuses on images of the mulata in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuban poetry, fiction, and visual arts. These images, she argues, are at the heart of Cuba's peculiar form of multiculturalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813914671
Publisher:	University of Virginia
Publication date:	01/28/1993
Series:	New World Studies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)