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Havana Year Zero
Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana. It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That’s how low we sank. The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
PALABRAS
PALABRAS: Dispatches from THE FESTIVAL DE LA PALABRA features short stories by authors, including Junot Diaz, Aurora Arias, and Mayra Santos Febres, from the Caribbean, Central and Latin America, Spain and Catalonia. Many of the stories in this collection are translated into English for the first time. Edited by Yamile Silva and Hank Willenbrink, this collection of new short fiction displays aesthetically diverse and remarkable voices from the Americas and Iberia.
Forms of Disappointment
Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity. In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after 1989. Cuba’s intervention in Angola’s post-independence civil war from 1976 to 1991 was its longest and most engaged internationalist project and left a profound mark on the culture of both nations. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Millar argues, Cuban and Angolan writers and filmmakers responded to this collective history and adapted to new postsocialist realities in analogous wa...
El hijo del héroe
A los doce años, Ernesto recibe en La Habana la noticia de que su padre ha muerto en la guerra de Angola. Una guerra en la que, entre 1975 y 1991, participaron miles de cubanos. Ante los otros, Ernesto se convierte en el hijo de un héroe y el peso de esa responsabilidad cambiará su vida. Desde sus distintas edades y distintas ciudades, siempre perseguido por el fantasma de su padre cuya muerte intenta reconstruir, Ernesto reflexionará sobre el largo período de la presencia cubana en África y buscará su propio lugar en el mundo. Una búsqueda que lo llevará a comprender que la realidad puede no ser exactamente como uno piensa. En esta extraordinaria novela, Karla Suárez nos hace partícipes del modo en que la Historia con mayúscula se interpone y condiciona los sueños individuales de libertad.
La estrategia
En 2007, Karla Suárez formó parte de la selección Bogotá39, un certamen literario en el que se reunieron 39 escritores jóvenes provenientes de diecisiete países de Latinoamérica con el objetivo de destacar las nuevas voces y tendencias de la literatura latinoamericana. La estrategia es la contribución del autor a la antología vinculada a Bogotá39 y que, siete años después, recupera arrobabooks. Pese al tiempo transcurrido, éste no ha hecho sino confirmar las expectativas, la ambición y la absoluta vigencia de aquella propuesta y de aquellos autores. Biografía Karla Suárez (La Habana, 1969) es graduada en Ingeniería electrónica, profesión que continúa desarrollando. Ha pub...
Habana año cero
"Era como si hubiéramos alcanzado el punto crítico mínimo de una curva matemática. ¿Tiene presente una parábola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ahí llegamos."Corre el año 1993. Cuba está en lo más álgido del Período Especial, un profunda crisis económica tras el colapso del bloque soviético.Para Julia, una profesora de matemática que detesta enseñar, La Habana está en su año cero: el punto más bajo, camino a ninguna parte. Desesperada por tomar las riendas de su vida, Julia se une a Euclides, su colega y ex amante, para emprender la búsqueda del documento que compruebe que el teléfono fue inventado por Antonio Meucci, en La Habana. Creen que esta es la resp...
Growing up in Latin America
Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.
The Power of Your Metabolism
This book provides information on slow metabolism, weight problems, obesity, diabetes, hypothyroidism.
forum for inter-american research Vol 4
Volume 4 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
