Adapting Cecilia, Cuba's Iconic Mulatta (New Caribbean Studies)

By: Lucy Harney

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Synopsis: This project explores the expanding corpus of texts and artifacts inspired by Cirilo Villaverde's most well-known literary character, Cecilia Valdés. Drawing on adaptation studies and related transmedia approaches, the book examines how and why this iconographic complex, centered on the mytheme of a disaffected mulatta striving for a better life, has generated such a remarkably persistent proliferation of multi-media instantiations. Chapters address topics and themes central to the interests of Villaverde scholars as well as to Cubanists and Latin Americanists, more broadly, such as gender and sexual roles, race and hybridity, cultural and national identity, and, in general, colonial and post-colonial social contexts in Cuba.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031976773
Related ISBNs:: 9783031976766
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 09/27/25
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.