"Performing Afro-Cuba offers an important read on the semiotic contours of race and folkloric spectacle in eastern Cuba and marks an important contribution to broader folklore studies."
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba’s colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also...
You easily download any file type for your device.Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History | Kristina Wirtz.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
