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Subject(s)

• Cosme, Eusebia [Browse]

Series

Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide. [More in this series]

Summary note

Eusebia Cosme (or Eusebia Cosme Almanza) was an Afro-Cuban poetry reciter, actress, interpreter of Afro-Antillian verse, concert performer and radio show host. Cosme was considered the most successful Cuban diseuse of Afro-Antillian verse. The Eusebia Cosme Papers, 1927-1973, deal mainly with Ms. Cosme's career as a diseuse and actress. The collection includes correspondence, personal papers, contracts, poems including some written about Cosme, essays, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, scripts including radio scripts, certificates, posters, and photographs relating mainly to Cosme's career, including her readings of Afro-Antillian verse, chiefly by Hispanic poets using black themes, as well as Afro-American poets Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes. Also, material on Cuba. Correspondents include Felix B. Caignet.

Notes

• Date range: 1927-1973.
• Includes the following publications: Other artists and events; Contracts and others.
• Reproduction of the originals from the New York Public Library.
• Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC

1351523351

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