
Diago
The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present
Alejandro de la Fuente(Author)
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,U.S. (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 6. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-674-97706-8 (ISBN)
Description
A leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, visual artist Juan Roberto Diago (b. 1971) has produced a body of work that offers a revisionist history of the Cuban nation. His "history"-a term he frequently inserts in his works using the visual language of graffiti-is not the official narrative of a racially harmonious nation, built thanks to the selfless efforts of generous white patriots. Diago's Cuba is a nation built on pain, rape, greed, and the enslavement of millions of displaced Africans, a nation still grappling with the long-term effects of slavery and colonialism. To him, slavery is not the past, but a daily experience of racism and discrimination. Africa is not a root, but a wellspring of cultural renovation and personal affirmation, the ancestors that sustain him in his journey.
In the first examination of Diago's creative work during his entire career, Alejandro de la Fuente provides parallel English- and Spanish-language text, illustrated throughout. The book traces Diago's singular efforts to construct new pasts-the pasts required to explain the racial tensions of contemporary Cuba and the pasts of this Afro-Cuban present.
In the first examination of Diago's creative work during his entire career, Alejandro de la Fuente provides parallel English- and Spanish-language text, illustrated throughout. The book traces Diago's singular efforts to construct new pasts-the pasts required to explain the racial tensions of contemporary Cuba and the pasts of this Afro-Cuban present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
107 color illustrations, 4 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 273 mm
Width: 273 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-97706-8 (9780674977068)
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Person
Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, and Professor of African and African American Studies and History, at Harvard University.