...This chapter explores the fragments arrachés of Alberto O'Farrill—the black writer and actor who appeared on the teatro bufo (Cuban minstrelsy) stage and in the New York City Latino newspapers La Prensa and El Gráfico from...

...-period Afro-Cuban American context, as well as its two representative figures: Alberto O'Farrill and Eusebia Cosme. O'Farrill's and Cosme's irrecoverability is due, partially, to the ephemerality of their performance texts. The fact of their afrolatinidad in the entertainment industries of the early...