
handle: 10669/23699
Eugenio Hernández Espinosa es hoy reconocido como uno de los dramaturgos más relevantes del teatro cubano, principalmente por escribir obras que tienen que ver con la realidad del pueblo, que retratan a las clases populares y que han roto con los enfoques prejuiciados en torno al negro y su problemática. Este trabajo busca caracterizar a la figura femenina en la obra María Antonia, una pieza llevada al público en 1967, un drama intenso y polémico, reconocido como la mayor tragedia afrocubana. María Antonia nos ofrece la oportunidad de contemplar teatro negro en Cuba durante una época ideológicamente menos dispuesta a promover la posibilidad de tal producción dada su fijación en la cultura afrocubana y el eje sugestivo de su marginación. María Antonia trae a la escena una elaboración compleja y revela lo socioeconómico, lo etnorracial y lo afrorreligioso en un escenario que abre la puerta para una crítica alrededor de la forma de visualizar y retratar a la mujer afrocubana en esferas y roles impuestos, como portadora de la herencia religiosa, figura sensual y emocionalmente inestable, así como los temas de mulataje, violencia y resistencia.
Eugenio Hernández Espinosa is today recognized as one of the most important playwrights of Cuban theater, mainly for plays that have to do with the people’s reality, that portray the popular masses, and that have ruptured the prejudicial approaches to issues of blacks. This study seeks to characterize the role of the female character in his work María Antonia, a theatrical piece launched in 1967. An intense and polemical drama recognized as the major Afro-Cuban tragedy, María Antonia allows us the opportunity to contemplate black theater in Cuba during an era ideologically less inclined to promote the possibility of this kind of productiongiven its focus on Afro-Cuban culture and the argument of its marginalization. María Antonia brings to the stage a complex elaboration and reveals socio-economic, ethno-racial, and afro-religious issues in a plot that opens the door for a critique around the manner of envisioning and portraying the Afro-Cuban woman in imposed spheres and roles such as bearer of religious heritage, emotionally unstable and sensual figure, mulatoness, violence, and resistance.
French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature, tragedia, afrocubanidad, negritud, PC1-5498, tragedy, Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, Cuban theater, negritude, PQ1-3999, teatro cubano, Afro-cubanism, Romanic languages
French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature, tragedia, afrocubanidad, negritud, PC1-5498, tragedy, Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, Cuban theater, negritude, PQ1-3999, teatro cubano, Afro-cubanism, Romanic languages
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