{"product_id":"mulata-nation-alison-fraunhar-9781496814432","title":"Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba","description":"Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWidely understood to embody the bridge between European subject and African other, the mulata contains the sensuality attributed to Africans in a body more closely resembling the European ideal of beauty. This symbol bears far-reaching implications, with shifting, contradictory cultural meanings in Cuba. Fraunhar explores these complex paradigms, how, why, and for whom the image was useful, and how it was both subverted and asserted from the colonial period to the present. From the early seventeenth century through Cuban independence in 1899 up to the late revolutionary era, Fraunhar illustrates the ambiguous figure's role in nationhood, citizenship, and commercialism. She analyzes images including key examples of nineteenth-century graphic arts, avant-garde painting and magazine covers of the Republican era, cabaret and film performance, and contemporary iterations of gender. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFraunhar's study stands out for attending to the phenomenon of \u003ci\u003emulataje\u003c\/i\u003e not only in elite production such as painting, but also in popular forms: popular theater, print culture, later films, and other media where stereotypes take hold. Indeed, in contemporary Cuba, \u003ci\u003emulataje\u003c\/i\u003e remains a popular theme with Cubans as well as foreigners in drag shows, reflecting queerness in visual culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Fraunhar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496814436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496814432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019","brand":"Alison Fraunhar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124133851391,"sku":"9781496814432","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d53a2f0-76f4-448f-b97f-27d38c9222af.jpg?v=1687434945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mulata-nation-alison-fraunhar-9781496814432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}