Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living and from the Trail of

and from the Trail of Tears to the Pacific Northwest

Cuando en la escuela empiezan a pasar cosas raras

It is one I recognise well

a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves

What happened to marital bliss

Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living and from the Trail ofArising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part of mostly white Cuban intellectuals to produce a national literature that incorporated elements from the Afro Cuban traditions of lower class urban blacks.