Borelli, Melissa Blanco - She is Cuba

This book traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her identity through her hips. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges.

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CONTENTS

Prologue, Entre Familia/Between Family
Introduction
Chapter 1: Historicizing Hip(g)nosis
Interlude 1: Echando Cuentos/Telling Stories
Chapter 2: Hip(g)nosis at Work: Rumors, Social Dance and Cuba's Academias de Baile
Interlude 2: A Marriage Proposal
Chapter 3: Hip(g)nosis as Pleasure: The Mulata in Film
Interlude 3: Lost Baggage
Chapter 4: Hip(g)nosis as Brand: Despelote, Tourism and Mulata Citizenship
Conclusion or Rear Endings
Index