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Performing Poetry, Race, and the Caribbean: Eusebia Cosme and Luis Palés Matos.

The article offers some specific examples of how elements of race, region, nation, and gender are performed in the work of early twentieth-century artists Luis Palés Matos and Eusebia Cosme and of what effect performance has on the genre of poetry. They portray Caribbean race through poetic performa...

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Published in:Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 135 - 148
Main Author: Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2008
Subjects:
Race
Gender
Poetry (Literary form)
Cosme, Eusebia
Matos, Luis Pales
Caribbean
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article offers some specific examples of how elements of race, region, nation, and gender are performed in the work of early twentieth-century artists Luis Palés Matos and Eusebia Cosme and of what effect performance has on the genre of poetry. They portray Caribbean race through poetic performances, unsettling some polarized extremes and reinforcing others.