Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
Series: Rethinking the Americas
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780812238679
Subjects: Black studies; Theatre, drama; c 1800 to c 1900; History and criticism; Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba; Literary Criticism; History - General History; Cuba; Caribbean & Latin American; 19th century; Blacks in literature; Cuban literature; Race in literature
First sentence: "The theatre is the soul of the people," claims the epigraph on a publicity poster for a performance of the bufo cubano at Havana's Teatro Marti in the late 1950s.