Stories of Exclusion. Poscolonial Inquiries about Race and Marginality in Sara Gómez ́s Cinema.

Abstract

This article explores some audiovisual materials of the Cuban filmmaker Sara Gomez. The main analytical focus of this exploration will be the discussion on the racial issue that emerges in conditions of obliteration in the narratives of the Cuban nation after the Revolution of 1959. The negotiation processes that shape the web of meanings of images from this creator make visible a field of power relations guarded by a state discourse that reified in their daily practices the colonial violence ́s marks on people of African descent in the Caribbean. The artist ́s conceptual operation allow us here tying its narrative strategies with tropological repertoire of colonial mimicry that Homi Bhabha explains from the epistemology of postcolonial theories. Thus, from the ambivalence of colonial discourse and from the political lobbying of Sara Gomez ́s cinema, we ́ll critically interrogate the logic of racialized invisible order that founded the basis of social dynamics and the stakes of citizenship of the post-revolution in Cuba.