She is Cuba
A Genealogy of the Mulata Body
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 January 2016
- ISBN 9780199968176
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 231x155x17 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 images 0
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Short description:
This book traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her identity through her hips. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges.
MoreLong description:
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living and dancing body in order to flesh out the process of identity formation, this book makes a claim for how subaltern bodies negotiate a cultural identity that continues to mark their bodies on a daily basis. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges: bodies watching, looking, touching and dancing with one another. It sets up a genealogy of how the representations and venerations of the dancing mulata continue to circulate and participate in the volatile political and social economy of contemporary Cuba.
MoreTable of Contents:
Prologue, Entre Familia/Between Family
Introduction
Chapter 1: Historicizing Hip(g)nosis
Interlude 1: Echando Cuentos/Telling Stories
Chapter 2: Hip(g)nosis at Work: Rumors, Social Dance and Cuba's Academias de Baile
Interlude 2: A Marriage Proposal
Chapter 3: Hip(g)nosis as Pleasure: The Mulata in Film
Interlude 3: Lost Baggage
Chapter 4: Hip(g)nosis as Brand: Despelote, Tourism and Mulata Citizenship
Conclusion or Rear Endings
Index
