Gloria Rolando : Memory, Liberation, and the African Diaspora Through Cuban Film.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Queeley, Andrea J.

Series:

SUNY Series, Afro-Latinx Futures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rolando, Gloria.

Motion pictures, Cuban.

Africans in motion pictures.

Local Subjects:

Rolando, Gloria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

The first comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and legacy of internationally acclaimed Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando.For over three decades, Gloria Rolando has created films that challenge the erasure of Black history in Cuba and the Americas more broadly.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface: Reflections from the Editors

Notes

Bibliography

Preface Coda: In Loving Memory of Our Dear Sister and Coeditor, Yesenia Fernández Selier

Acknowledgments

Gloria Rolando's Films

Note

Introduction: Maroon and Matriarch: Introducing the Life and Work of Black Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando

Part I: Conception

Part II: Birth

Part III: Life: The Films

Part IV: Love: A Reflection

Part One: Conception

1 The Cinematic Works of Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando

2 Gloria in Me

3 Listening to What the Roots Have to Say: They Speak of Our Grandmothers and Great-Grandmothers

Coincidences, You Ask?: Connecting Black Feminists to Rolando's Roots of My Heart

The Question Arises: Why Such a Prolonged Silence?

The PIC: The Real History

Ancestral Voices: Toward Decolonizing the Mind

Evoking My Roots and Decolonizing My Mind

Part Two: Birth

4 The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando: Conversations with Magia López and Catherine Murphy

5 Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America in Cuban Film: An Interview with Gloria Rolando

6 An Optimistic Vision: Reflections from Sound Engineer Juan Demosthene

7 "Aquellas monjas negras que vinieron de Baltimore": Gloria Rolando on Her Documentary Hermanas del corazón (Sisters of the Heart)

Part Three: Life

8 Gloria Rolando's Archival Imaginary

9 "Yuh Luk Lik Kin": Historical and Contemporary Identities Among Anglophone Afrodescendants in Hispanophone Regions

10 Race, Remembrance, and the Revolutionary Visual Historian: Gloria Rolando's Breaking the Silence

Bibliography.

11 Antidotes to Anti-Blackness: Emancipatory Remembering and Rolando's "Rescue Work"

Art as Antidote

The Past As/Is Present: Cuban Historical Narrative and the Problematic of the 1912 Massacre

"You can go [to Cuba] but you must come back": Memory, Loss, and the Metaphor of Return

Conclusion: Multisensorial Re-Presentation

12 The Role of Space, Time, and Language to Communicate Memory in Gloria Rolando's Work

Reconstructing Memory in Film

Dimensions of Space

Time and Memory

Language's Role in Communicating Memory

13 Wombs and the Maternal Essence in the Cinematic Poetics of Gloria Rolando

The Maternal Essence Unveiled in the Genesis of Life's Dimensions

Introduction

Development: The Symbolic Universe of Maternity in The Eyes of the Rainbow

Memory and the Healing Condition: The Caribbean as The Womb of the World Through Gloria Rolando's Cinematic Poetics

14 Gloria Rolando: Bibliography and Filmography

Filmography

Films Directed by Rolando

Gloria Rolando in Film

Part Four: Love: A Reflection

15 Teaching the World: Gloria Rolando's Soft, Clear, Superhero Voice

Gloria: Teacher of the Past and/in the Present

Gloria: Daughter, Granddaughter, and Defender of the Image of Black Women

Gloria: Spirit of a Diasporic Freedom Fighter

Conclusion: Superhero with a Soft Voice

16 Ready for the Revolution? A Diasporic Sister's Memoir

17 Gloria, Sara, and Landrián: Black Gaze and Death in Cuban Cinema

Los Paramarginales: Gloria and the Awakening of Black Consciousness in the 1990s

Iku, Landrián, and Gloria in Glory

How to Be an Afro-Cuban Filmmaker and Not Die in the Process

List of Contributors

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Queeley, Andrea J. Gloria Rolando

ISBN:

9798855808469

OCLC:

1597387574