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Join us for a reception in honor of our new exhibition. At 5:15 p.m., hear Persephone Braham, associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, give a talk entitled " Elpidio Valdés, Cartooning Cuba's Revolution."
Elpidio Valdés (1979), directed by Juan Padrón Blanco (b. 1947), was Cuba’s first animated feature film. Set during Cuba’s second war for independence (1895–1898), it captured Cuban history and identity through a vocabulary of characters that were instantly recognizable to the modern Cuban public.
Persephone Braham teaches Caribbean film and culture at the University of Delaware. She is the author of From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America (Bucknell, 2015) and Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico (Minnesota, 2004), and editor of African Diaspora in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean (Delaware, 2014). She is the author of the Elpidio Valdés series entry for the volume A Cuban Cinema Companion ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).