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The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new ...
Migrant and Tourist Encounters
Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism during the last three decades. I compare the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and ethics of im/mobility and encounter, both on the islands and in destinations abroad. The works draw attention to the interconnectedness of migration, tourism, and other forms of travel as well as immobility, and portray growing local and global inequalities through characters’ disparate access to free, voluntary movement. I consider how the works respond to the question of the moral potential of encounters produced by im/mobilities and the possibility of connection across differences. I argue that Dominican and Cuban artists not only critique neo-colonial paradigms of power and im/mobility, but envision and enact strategies for belonging and, in some cases, suggest a path toward de-colonial cosmopolitanism.
El gato y su cubanía: José Agustín Goytisolo, embajador de la poesía cubana en la España del tardofranquismo
Es posible que estemos familiarizados con los estudios en torno a la poesía del escritor catalán José Agustín Goytisolo (1928-1999), así como de su generación del cincuenta; que sepamos de su posicionamiento político como intelectual de izquierdas y de su compromiso con diferentes causas sociales y políticas, situación que plasmó no solo en su activismo sino también en sus letras. No obstante, ¿cuánto ignoramos de su interés por América latina, su historia y sus letras; y particularmente de su relación con la Cuba revolucionaria y su poesía?, ¿cuánto desconocemos de la relación intelectual y editorial-profesional que tuvo con diferentes figuras; así como de sus labores d...
Feminizid in Recht Und Literatur
This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of Diego Zúñiga (Chile), Laura Restrepo (Colombia), and Fernanda Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic and intersectional dimensions of femicide and its impunity. Analyses of the novels draw out the ambivalences of juristic frameworks and legal practice.
El asmático insigne, monstruo de Trocadero.
“Menos conocida y, sobre todo, menos trabajada, es la conexión que se produjo entre Lezama y los entonces jóvenes poetas, narradores y editores peninsulares, de la generación del 50, luego de la publicación de la novela Paradiso en 1966. A partir de entonces el vínculo del poeta habanero con España entró en una nueva fase de interlocución, que tiene en el epistolario con José Ángel Valente y José Agustín Goytisolo, dos poetas nacidos a fines de los 20, una fuente tan ineludible como rica en sugerencias. La investigación y la antología sobre la correspondencia Lezama / Goytisolo, que propone la joven crítica Fernanda Bustamante, es una de las varias piezas que faltan para armar el rompecabezas de la recepción de Lezama en la literatura iberoamericana entre fines de los 60 y mediados de los 70.” Rafael Rojas
Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature
This book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political purposes. From the Porfirian regime in Mexico to Castro’s Cuba, this book describes how such regimes have sought to seize medical knowledge to support propagandistic ideas and marginalize their opponents in ways that transcend specific pathologies, political ideologies, and geographical and temporal boundaries. Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature brings together the work of literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of medicine, arguing that contemporary authors have actively challenged authoritarian narratives of medicine and disease. In doing so, they continue to re-examine the place of these regimes in the collective memory of Latin America and Spain.
Being La Dominicana
Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class. Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today's young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.
Representaciones Cómicas de la Discapacidad
La risa contiene un momento de distancia y distanciamiento, pero al mismo tiempo también se refiere a un grupo social y, por tanto, indica pertenencia. Sin embargo, no existe un criterio objetivo para determinar cuándo y en qué condiciones la comicidad se convierte en violencia y crueldad, y el distanciamiento liberador en estigmatización y exclusión social. El objetivo de este volumen es analizar la ambivalencia de las representaciones cómicas de la discapacidad en textos de ficción, películas y representaciones escénicas, así como la ambivalencia de la recepción. Se trata de describir con precisión qué tipo de comicidad se utiliza y qué "comunidades de la risa" se crean como resultado.
National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema
National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coexists with international co-producers and small, ‘independent’ production companies. By tracing the reappearance, reconfiguration, and recycling of national identity in recent fiction feature films, the book demonstrates that the spectre of the national haunts Cuban cinema in ways that reflect intensified transnational flows of people, capital, and culture. Moreover, it shows that the creative manifestations of this spectre screen—both hiding and revealing—a persistent anxiety around Cubanness even as national identity is transformed by connections to the outside world.
Diálogos entre literatura, memória e estilo
Diálogos entre literatura, memória e estilo nasceu de debates críticos e teóricos levantados na disciplina Literatura e questões historiográficas ministrada no segundo semestre de 2023 no Programa de pós-graduação em Letras da Universidades Estadual do Piauí(UESPI). Mas além de jovens pesquisadores, este compêndio reúne ainda acadêmicos experientes que combinam uma visão ampla e interdisciplinar tanto sobre textos consolidados no campo da historiografia literária como obras mais recentes e inovadoras em várias línguas. Como resultado, as discussões aqui colecionadas devem interessar igualmente pesquisadores, leitores e aficionados em literatura e crítica literária.
