Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4051980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Lomas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-154 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15366936-9554101 |
| OpenAlex | W4286652292 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
The exiled Cuban poet, editor, and feminist Lourdes Casal breaks with social scientific convention and identifies in the first person with "Hispanic Blackness," feminism, and Cuba in her essays about race and revolution. Her bridging of identity categories informs Casal's self-definition as a "radicalized" social scientist who sheds light on academic feminism's blindspots and who applauds the revolutionary recognition of Cuban culture as "Latin-African." Casal forges decolonial tools for dismantling the master's house by adapting feminist rhetorical strategies of self-inscription that make palpable the entrenched effects of anti-Black violence. Casal's scholarship practices what queer Cuban philosopher José Muñoz calls "disidentification." Against a tradition that dismisses women as monsters, she reformats Cuban and Black thought by assuming the role of Shakespeare and Fernández Retamar's Caliban. This essay invites the reader to remember Casal's 1970s essays as foundationally intersectional, decolonial, antiracist, and feminist
Art · Black feminism · Feminism · Literature · Political science · Queer · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law
Castro, the Blacks, and Africa
Cecilia Valdés
Critical Race Theory
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Caliban
Cuban Revolution in America
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race
Chinese Cubans
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
Anti-Communist Anti-Imperialism
Women, war and revolution
The Politics of Race in U.S. Feminist Scholarship
Reflections on the Conference on Women and Development
Blacktino Queer Performance
Caliban's Reason
Critical race theory
Dilemmas of a Golden Exile
Daughters of the Diaspora
The Cuban Exile Wars
Unbecoming blackness
"In Search of Lourdes Casal's "Ana Veldford
Racial Migrations
A Nation for All
Revolutionary Cuba in the World Arena
Our Rightful Share
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |