Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Comparsas, Congas, and Chambelonas: Carnival and National Identity in Cuba
  • 1. Felipe Pichardo Moya's "La comparsa": Afro-Cuban Carnival as Sinister Spectacle
  • 2. Carnival and Ñáñiguismo: Poetic Syncretism in Alejo Carpentier's "Juego santo"
  • 3. Carnival and Afro-Cuban Ritual in Nicolás Guillén's "Sensemayá: canto para matar una culebra"
  • 4. "Comparsa habanera," Emilio Ballagas's Emblematic Contribution to Afrocubanismo
  • 5. Drumming Up the Black Vote: Chambelonas and Cuban Electoral Politics in José Zacarías Tallet's "Quintín Barahona"
  • 6. "La conga prohibida": Felix B. Caignet's Response to Carnival Controversy in Santiago de Cuba
  • 7. Representations of Afro-Cuban Carnival in Three Poems by Marcelino Arozarena
  • 8. An Outsider on the Inside: Alfonso Camín's "Carnaval en la Habana"
  • Epilogue. Carnival and Cultural Essence
  • Appendix. A Brief Anthology of Poems Inspired by Afro-Cuban Carnival
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.