Abstract

ALEMAN, Lídice. Isn't This Woman Always the Same Woman? Gender, Race, and Cuban Poetry of the 1980s in the Poetic Works of Soleida Ríos. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.263-295. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v17n1.48696.

The purpose of this article is to determine the revolutionary nature of the poetic-discursive constructions of the categories of race and gender in the poetic images created by Afro-Cuban writer Soleida Ríos (Santiago de Cuba, 1950) in the decade of the 80s. This implies examining how the poet saw herself as a Black woman in a context whose rhetoric of equality contradicted its differentiating practices. I am interested in the evolution of the Black Cuban woman over the almost thirty years since the revolutionary project of the "new man" was launched. The article analyzes the dialogue between poetic discourse and the dominant political discourse, in order to determine the considerable influence of the latter on the redefinition of the categories of race and gender, taking into account that those concepts of identity are not only cultural but also political constructions, strategically camouflaged behind cultural, traditional, and historical aspects.

Keywords : contemporary Afro-Cuban Poetry; Soleida Ríos; gender; race; Black woman.

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