Afrocuba
An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
by Pedro Pérez Sarduy & Jean Stubbs
ISBN-10: 906156750
Paperback, 1st July 1993.
Price: £12.99
What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society which claims to have abolished it? How does the legacy of slavery and segregation live on in today's Cuba? Afrocuba looks at the black experience in Cuba through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. Writings - poetry, fiction, political analysis and anthropology - from over thirty, mainly black, contributors give a multi-faceted insight into Cuba's rich ethnic and cultural reality.
In their introduction, editors Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs draw on their extensive knowledge of Cuba to reassess the role of race in the island's turbulent history. Their choice of contributions introduce the reader to a wide range of previously unavailable Cuban writing, in which dissenting voices speak alongside established authors.
What Reviewers Say about Afrocuba
"The editors have brought together a rich portrait of 'AfroCuba', one of the most vibrant and - from an Anglo-Saxon viewpoint - least well documented of the black Caribbean diasporas."
Professor Stuart Hall
"This first compilation of an AfroCuban identity is as readable as it is original."
New Statesman and Society
About the Authors
Pedro Pérez Sarduy is a Cuban poet, novelist and broadcaster.
Jean Stubbs is a lecturer in Caribbean Studies at the University of North London and author of Cuba: The Test of Time (LAB,1989) and Tobacco on the Periphery (Cambridge,1985).
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