Resumen de La feminización de la colonia: Cuba
Post Civil War films in Spain, after the industry abandoned the “cruzada” genre, turned its attention to historical productions. These films represented figures and events of a more or less recent past, and drilled into the public a very similar propaganda to the one proposed in the “cruzada” genre. Bambú (1945) tried most unsuccessfully to re-present Spain as the benevolent empire, while putting forward a model of the colony (Cuba) as submissive woman. In the 1960s in Cuba, cinema sought to promote the new revolutionary nation.
Lucía (1968, first episode) again identifies woman and nation.
This time depicting her as the ravaged woman eventually to be replaced as sign of the nation by the virile force of the black “mambis”. The present study compares the two women characters as signs of Cuba, and concludes that in the boht abstract cases the discourse that defines the nation is purely masculine.
