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Mateos, Ana (2022): 'Aren't we mothers all the same?': Personhood and patria in Eva Canel's La mulata. In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 99, No. 8

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Abstract

Eva Canel's play La mulata (Barcelona 1891, premiered in Havana in 1893) places its protagonist, Patria, at the intersection of feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial agendas. In particular, I argue that it is through an original adaptation of the senti-mental ideal of motherhood that the play grounds Patria's rights as a mother and as an Afro-descendant woman, as well as the standing of a soon to be independent Cuba. In this way, the play invites reflection on the problematic relationship between discourses of disembodied personhood and bodily discrimination.

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