Melissa Blanco Borelli

She Is Cuba

A Genealogy of the Mulata Body

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199968176
• ISBN-10: 0199968179
• Artikelnr.: 47869897

Autorenporträt

Melissa Blanco Borelli is a Senior Lecturer in Dance in the Drama and Theatre Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. She created the first joint honours programme in Drama and Dance at Royal Holloway. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (OUP, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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