The Chino Cubano Complex
Five Artists’ Strategic Self-Orientalization and Reclamation of Chinese Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13038121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larissa Ong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2154-1361 • E-ISSN: 2154-1353 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5070/t472035429 |
| OpenAlex | W2645967412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article explores how five Cubans of Chinese descent have represented their personal and collective identities through the cultural products that they have created. It also investigates how their individual backgrounds and prevailing racial politics at the time have affected their representations. The Chinese first migrated from various parts of China to Cuba in the mid-19 th century as indentured laborers in Cuba's sugar plantations, and then settled and formed a sizeable and vibrant community, participating economically, politically, and socially as Cuban citizens in Cuba. Their distinct cultural legacy lives on through Cuba's texts, art, music, and cultural practices. Using the frameworks of textual and visual analysis, as well as the theories of the politics of representation, I analyze the products of five different Chinese Cubans. While previous studies on the politics of representation of Chinese Cuban cultural production examined individual art forms, this article compares products across different mediums alongside each other to construct a broader understanding of their conditions of production to demonstrate how each producer represents their Chinese identity amidst Cuba's diverse ethnic and cultural influences
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Identity (music · Land reclamation · Political science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |