Hollywood in Havana. "El milagro de Anaquillé", a ballet by Amadeo Roldán and Alejo Carpentier
Abstract
The problem of Afro-Cuban representation must be one of the issues that generated the most debate among the members of the Cuban Grupo minorista at the end of the twenties. One of the places where this issue is most lucidly addressed is in a libretto that Carpentier wrote for a ballet by Amadeo Roldán during the year 1927. Carpentier and Roldán think against the hyperinflationary tendency of Hollywood cinema and the members of the Creole elite who present African identity in a stereotyped manner. What particularly makes this ballet stand out is that it captures in its plot a paradox: in it is represented the impossibility of representation, the impossibility of the genuine symbolisation of the Afro-Cuban.
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