Lindsay Griffiths Brown

Re-presenting the body: Eusebia Cosme’s performative revisions of modernist aesthetics in Negrista poetry

This article examines the career and critical reception of the Afro Cuban declamadora (poetry reciter) Eusebia Cosme during the 1930s–1940s, focusing on her stage performances of poesía negrista (negrista poetry), also known as poesía afroantillana (Afro Antillean poetry). This l...