“The goat that breaks the drum pays with its hide” (you break it, you pay for it): black characters in Cuban contemporary fiction, with special reference to a short story by Alexis Díaz Pimienta
Abstract
This article starts from the assumption that the Cuban literary scene has been very productive in the last decades of the twentieth century and throughout the twenty-first century, as claimed by many specialists and scholars. Despite the question of negritude and the racial discrimination that do exist on the island, Cuban literature and art have rarely focused on racial issues. Moreover, literary works whose main character is an Afro-Cuban acting as a political subject do not exist. The short story here analyzed, namely “Cervantes nace en Pogolotti, se cría en Luyanó, gana una beca para escribir en Barcelona y se aburre”, by the Cuban writer Alexis Díaz Pimienta, entails a change in the treatment of the black character: a black writer, a black person already close to a political subject who tries to enter the white world. The text approaches the Havana culture of the Luyanó and Pogolotti neighborhoods.Downloads
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