African Feast Nights: Rumbera Movies and Fear to Black Religiosity

This article analyzes how rumbera movies contributed to the emergence of narratives of fear around black Latin American religiosity. From its beginnings in the 1930 decade, the aesthetics and stories of this film genre cast diverse formal and festive religious manifestations as a part of black peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Hernández Medina, Rodrigo Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/77698
Acceso en línea:https://moderna.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehm/article/view/77698
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:miedo
religiosidad festiva
santería
candomblé
cine de rumberas
fear
festive religiosity
rumbera movies
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Sumario:This article analyzes how rumbera movies contributed to the emergence of narratives of fear around black Latin American religiosity. From its beginnings in the 1930 decade, the aesthetics and stories of this film genre cast diverse formal and festive religious manifestations as a part of black people's primitive and immoral condition. This joined with fears around big cities, violence and the colonial legacy of Latin American countries, so creating cultural products in which a latent fear can be perceived. This article makes a brief analysis of these processes, mainly in some films performed by Ninón Sevilla in the 1950 decade.