She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body by Melissa Blanco Borelli

By Melissa Blanco Borelli

She is Cuba: A family tree of the Mulata physique strains the heritage of the Cuban mulata and her organization with hips, sensuality and renowned dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identification via her hips and enacts an embodied idea known as hip(g)nosis. by way of targeting her residing and dancing physique for you to flesh out the method of identification formation, this ebook makes a declare for the way subaltern our bodies negotiate a cultural id that maintains to mark their our bodies every day. Combining literary and private narratives with old and theoretical bills of Cuban renowned dance background, religiosity and tradition, this paintings investigates the ability of embodied exchanges: our bodies gazing, taking a look, touching and dancing with each other. It units up a family tree of ways the representations and venerations of the dancing mulata proceed to flow and perform the unstable political and social financial system of latest Cuba.

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