Roberto Zurbano

Roberto Zurbano

Roberto Zurbano
Roberto Zurbano from La Habana, Cuba is an essayist, editor and cultural critic specializing in literature, race and alternative music. He is a member of La Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and of the executive committee of the Regional Articulation of African Descendants from Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAC). He is author of the books Elogio del lector; Los estados nacientes: Literatura cubana y postmodernidad and La poética de los noventa and of papers such as “El triángulo invisible del siglo xx cubano: Raza, literatura y nación”; “El rap cubano: Discursos hambrientos de realidad y Cuba: Doce dificultades para enfrentar los (neo) racismos”. He has written forewords for books by Frantz Fanon, Georgina Herrera and Simone Schwarz-Bart. He works at the Literary Research Center at the Casa de las Américas in La Habana.

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