'Aren't we mothers all the same?': Personhood and patria in Eva Canel's La mulata

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

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.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• ISSN: 1475-3839
• Language: English