Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo

The poetry associated with Afrocubanismo has been of interest to academics since the movement began in the late 1920s. Thomas Anderson's analysis infuses new life into the study of these remarkable works. It offers thought-provoking new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, demonstrating how their writings both contributed to and detracted from the development of an Afro-Cuban identity.