This article explores the Marta Rojas’ trilogy of antislavery narrative to elucidate that the Cuban Revolution has influenced and inspired an expression of Afro-Cuban identity. It means that this study focuses on contemporary Afro-Cuban cultural praxis after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and Cuba’s subsequent plunge into deep economic crisis.
Unlike the traditional Cuban antislavery narrative, El columpio de Rey Spencer (1993), Santa lujuria (1998) and El haren de Oviedo (2003) introduce a different perspective of history, in which the author presents previously marginalized characters in history as the blacks, women and West Indian groups as active agents in the formation of Cuban identity.