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Son For Everybody: Exploring Afro Cuban And African American Relations Through Langston Hughes’ Translations Of Nicolas Guillén’S Poetry, Hayley R. Fernandez
Son For Everybody: Exploring Afro Cuban And African American Relations Through Langston Hughes’ Translations Of Nicolas Guillén’S Poetry, Hayley R. Fernandez
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the translation decisions made in Cuba Libre, Translated from the Spanish By Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers, and to explore the contemporary image of Nicolás Guillén as expressed in recent projects regarding his work and legacy. Particular attention was paid to the historical and social frameworks Guillén employed in his own work and the same frameworks he and his poetry have been associated with in recent years. The larger importance of this piece was to take a look at how international Blackness existed and was worked with in literature at the …
Develando La Cuba Profunda: Tradición Mágico-Religiosa En El Teatro Cubano Contemporáneo, Jeniffer Fernández Hernández
Develando La Cuba Profunda: Tradición Mágico-Religiosa En El Teatro Cubano Contemporáneo, Jeniffer Fernández Hernández
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contemporary Cuban theater has proved to be a fertile platform for the representation, promotion, and dissemination of traditional popular culture, especially that vein derived from the African heritage. From the ritual legacy of Afro-Cuban religious beliefs—santería, palo monte, sociedad secreta abakuá, voodoo, espiritismo cruzado—and the rich mythology on which they are inspired, a cultural production has emerged that uniquely affects Cuban performing arts. It is in this respect that, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, several theater groups and creators throughout the Island have imbued, as an aesthetic motto, dramatic writing and staging with such magico-religious practices. …