Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance: Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa - Jill Flanders Crosby

Descriere Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance: Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa - Jill Flanders Crosby

Exploring \nthe movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders \n\n \n \n \nDespite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economic \nsanctions, the border between Cuba and the United States--arguably one of the \nmost politicized in the world--is in a state of constant flux. Tracing the flows \nof people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as \nwell as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, Circulating Culture explores how and why these circuits are a part \nof everyday life for millions of Cubans who negotiate extraordinary \ncircumstances daily. \n \n \n \nDrawing on extensive ethnographic research in these \nlocations, Jennifer Cearns highlights groups of Cuban society that are often \noverlooked, considering what Cuban culture and identity mean in a transnational \nsetting. Weaving evocative vignettes into her discussion of these larger \nquestions, Cearns pieces together the story of the creators of an emerging and \ndynamic network that punctures geopolitical boundaries and has outlasted a \nperiod of rapid social change--from the Obama administration through the death \nof Fidel Castro and into the Trump administration. \n \n \n \nUltimately, by focusing on everyday objects and the \nstrategies used to move them across borders, this book reveals how new cultural \nforms can develop from the cracks in societies often seen as broken. It \ndemonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities who have long \nbeen building their own infrastructures of possibility.\n \n \n \nA volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin \nA. Yelvington\n \n \n \nPublication \nof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American \nRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n

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University Of Florida Press

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