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Diago - The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present (Paperback)
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Diago - The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present (Paperback)
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A leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, visual
artist Juan Roberto Diago (b. 1971) has produced a body of work
that offers a revisionist history of the Cuban nation. His
"history"-a term he frequently inserts in his works using the
visual language of graffiti-is not the official narrative of a
racially harmonious nation, built thanks to the selfless efforts of
generous white patriots. Diago's Cuba is a nation built on pain,
rape, greed, and the enslavement of millions of displaced Africans,
a nation still grappling with the long-term effects of slavery and
colonialism. To him, slavery is not the past, but a daily
experience of racism and discrimination. Africa is not a root, but
a wellspring of cultural renovation and personal affirmation, the
ancestors that sustain him in his journey. In the first examination
of Diago's creative work during his entire career, Alejandro de la
Fuente provides parallel English- and Spanish-language text,
illustrated throughout. The book traces Diago's singular efforts to
construct new pasts-the pasts required to explain the racial
tensions of contemporary Cuba and the pasts of this Afro-Cuban
present.
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