Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film: Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance Alleanna Harris during his own hour of

during his own hour of need

a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment

Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love

When all seems lost

While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film: Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance Alleanna Harris during his own hour ofAfro Cuban Identity in Post Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists participation in and questioning of the revolutionary governments revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the Cuban revolution brought sweeping changes that vastly