Modernizzazione e primitivismi. Il caso della rappresentazione della Mulatta Cubana

The article concerns processes of cultural resistance and colonialism in late modernity, specifically in Cuban contemporary culture. In this context, in which the transculturation process between the old world (Europe) and the local culture are a fundamental part of identity, the occidental primitivist vision is elaborated and readapted in Cuba. This ability to play with the exotic is analyzed by the author focusing on the representations of the Cuban mulatto woman, a central figure in Cuba's culture and a connecting link between black and white cultures. The study of iconographic and literary sources on the Cuban mulatto woman enables reflection on the conquering logic of a triumphant modern Europe, as well as on the various answers and narrations opposed to this same modernity.