Narrativa afrocubana del nuevo siglo

Abstract

The 1989 implementation of the Special Period in Times of Peace led to a radical transformation of the sociocultural context in Cuba. Among its many consequences, this article focuses on the resurgence of the debate on racial discrimination, and the representation of this discrimination on nine novels published in Cuba in the new century, all of them with an Afrocuban protagonist: Las
criadas de La Habana [published in English: The Maids of Havana; Maldita danza; En la prisión de los sueños; El harén de Oviedo; Allegro de habaneras; Mulato; Palimpsesto; La soledad del tiempo y La Catedral de los Negros.