Filial Crisis and Erotic Politics in Black Cuban Literature: Daughters, Sons, and Lovers

by Conrad Michael James

This book proposes an affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature through its focus on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. Existing scholarship on black Cuban literature tends to privilege national political and economic discourses often focusing solely on the dynamics of race in the Revolution and the place of the black writer/artist within the nation's cultural institutions. And while there is substantial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855663384
• ISBN13: 9781855663381
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"