“Horrores que afligían a la raza de color”Identidades afrocubanas en el discurso literario de Andrés Orihuela

Resumen

The following study focusses the construction of Afrodescent identities in Cuba from the nineteen century folk literature. For that El Sol de Jesus del Monte, novel written by Andrés Orihuela, is taken as a privileged space which to analyze the role of literature in the process which Cuban society is set up as imagined community. First time we show some contextual clues that lead to intellectuals to formulate a hegemonic discourse on racial, gender or mixing raze identities. Then the literary discourse of Andrés Orihuela is analyzed from the intersectionality of racial and gender identity and finally we show some clues about the significance of these work within the various mechanisms of categorization, subjectivity and social perception of Afrodescent femininity in the Cuban collective nineteen century imaginary.