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Writing and the Revolution
Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela's literary isolation.
Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction
The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the centre of narratives reliant upon discovery and revelation: motives and criminals are slowly revealed, along with sexualized and violated bodies – from femmes fatales to the corpses of victims. A satisfying, gratifying genre for its readership, the detective novel promises the disruption and subsequent restoration of order in societies tarnished by disillusionment which hope for a better future. This book takes as its focus examples of detective fiction from Cuba and Mexico during or in the aftermath of huge social upheaval (the Special Period and th...
Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema
This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of youth. While sexual and cinematic cultures have their own unique relation to the public sphere, state institutions, and transnational flows, this book explores tensions, debates, and expressions that unite them. In an investigation of how young filmmakers employ queer strategies of self-making to bring sexual diversity to the screen, Margaret G. Frohlich shows us how cine joven takes part in the socialization of power in Cuba.
El tránsito vacilante
El tránsito vacilante plantea un estudio minucioso de las más recientes tendencias estéticas y temáticas en la cultura venezolana contemporánea. La antología reúne doce ensayos fundamentales para una mejor comprensión de la diversidad discursiva de las prácticas culturales del nuevo milenio. Esta colección recoge un amplio abanico de acercamientos teórico-críticos al quehacer cultural producido tanto en Venezuela como en la diáspora. El tránsito vacilante es el primer esfuerzo colectivo dedicado a investigar la representación de un periodo histórico —marcado por importantes cambios sociales y políticos desencadenados con el advenimiento de la Revolución bolivariana— en la literatura, el cine y las artes plásticas.
Sexualidades disidentes en la narrativa cubana contemporanea
Este libro analiza las discontinuidades de los postulados ideológicos del sistema revolucionario cubano, en un corpus representativo de la narrativa cubana contemporánea, desde 1990 hasta la actualidad. Este libro analiza las discontinuidades de los postulados ideológicos del sistema revolucionario cubano, en un corpus representativo de la narrativa cubana contemporánea, desde 1990 hasta la actualidad. Este ensayo se ocupa del estudio de subjetividades sexuales alternativas como instrumentos desestabilizadores de la hegemonía nacional. Asimismo, estos textos desarticulan y, a menudo, difuminan los referentes nacionales, con el propósito de legitimar estasidentidades marginales, previam...
The Feeling Child
The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the “affective turn” in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks specifically at the intersection between cultural constructions of childhood and the affective turn within the contemporary sociopolitical landscape of Latin America. The editors and contributors share a common aim in furthering comprehension of the particular intensity of the child’s affective presence—spectatorial, haptic, silent, and spectral, among others—in contemporary Latin American cultu...
Representing the Barrios
Against a backdrop of rapid urbanization and the growth of a global economy powered by carbon, Rebecca Jarman argues that in Venezuela, urban poverty has become one of the most important resources in national culture and statecraft. Attracting the attentions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from within and beyond the limits of Caracas, the barrios are fetishized in the cultural domain as sites of rampant sex, crime, revolution, disease, and violence. The appeal of the urban poor in entertainment is replicated in the policies of autocratic leaders who, operating within an extractivist matrix that prizes the acquisition of land and capital, have sought to expand their reach into ...
Cuban Studies 37
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.
Cuban Studies 38
Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.
Conversaciones. apuntes sobre el sistema del arte contemporáneo en Costa Rica. 2008-2016
La Costa Rica è stata, nel campo dell’arte contemporanea, un importante polo d’attrazione e di diffusione nel corso dei 15 anni di transizione fra il secolo XX e il XXI. Questa proiezione regionale ed internazionale, di artisti e curatori, sembra aver subito un rallentamento contestualmente con lo spostamento del centro di attenzione verso il Panama o il Guatemala. Il presente elaborato raccoglie una serie di dialoghi con artisti e curatori e altri protagonisti del sistema delle arti nei quali si riflette sulla situazione dell’arte sviluppato durante il periodo fra gli anni 2008-2016. Questa ricerca non si propone di eseguire un’analisi stilistica né un bilancio critico, ma vuol essere una valutazione storiografica relativa a un periodo circoscritto attraverso le voci dei protagonisti stessi.
