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Readers And Writers In Cuba
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Author : Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-14
Readers And Writers In Cuba written by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and universities, the printing press, the abolitionist movement and the exile community from 1810 through the post-war years. Subsequent sections trace literary life from the 1920s to 1958, focusing on the links between writers, readers, and the institutions that supported literary endeavors in the Cuban Republic. The remaining chapters address Cuban literary culture from 1959 through the 1990s. This first thorough study of Cuban print culture after the 1959 revolution fills a large gap in Latin American studies with original research in archives and journals. Analysis of the relationship between literature and contemporary Cuban society is grounded in the earliest Cuban vernacular literature born in the Spanish colony and redefined in the process of nation-building in the first half of the 20th century. The book also surveys Cuban literary production in the current period of transition, confronting issues of globalization, fragmentation, and Cuba's adjustment to a post-Cold War world.
Readers And Writers In Cuba
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Author : Pamela María Smorkaloff
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1997
Readers And Writers In Cuba written by Pamela María Smorkaloff and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Readers And Writers In Cuba
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Author : Pamela Smorkaloff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Readers And Writers In Cuba written by Pamela Smorkaloff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
Cuban American Literature Of Exile
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Author : Isabel Alvarez-Borland
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1998
Cuban American Literature Of Exile written by Isabel Alvarez-Borland and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Collections categories.
The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.
The Social Life Of Literature In Revolutionary Cuba
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Author : Par Kumaraswami
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-05
The Social Life Of Literature In Revolutionary Cuba written by Par Kumaraswami and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-05 with Social Science categories.
This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a hybrid activity between elite and mass culture, with inherent social, rather than aesthetic or political, value. Whilst many traditional studies of Cuban literature assume either its subjugation to politics and ideology or, conversely, its role in resisting political discourse via a rather naïve notion of artistic freedom, this project explores the varied, dynamic and multiple ways in which literature works in Cuban society: as a catalyst for identity construction aimed at consensus and belonging, but also as an instrument of self-differentiation and self-definition, even in the more recent context of a more market-oriented system. The study reviews policy from 1959 to the present, and presents contemporary case studies exploring the social functions of literature for writers, readers and ordinary Havana residents.
A Century Of Cuban Writers In Florida
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Author : Carolina Hospital
language : en
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Release Date : 1996
A Century Of Cuban Writers In Florida written by Carolina Hospital and has been published by Pineapple Press Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
-- An anthology of the writings of 33 of the most important Cuban men and women of letters, such as Felix Varela, Jose Marti, Juana Borrero, Jose Yglesias, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- An enlightening and comprehensive introduction examines the historical importance of the Cuban contribution to Florida's heritage -- The works are presented in English, most translated here for the first time
Literary Culture In Cuba
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Author : Par Kumaraswami
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Literary Culture In Cuba written by Par Kumaraswami and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100 interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going beyond the conventional approach (the study of individual authors and texts) and by going beyond the canon of texts known outside Cuba. It thus presents a historical analysis of the evolution of literary culture from 1959 to the present, as well as a series of more detailed case studies (on writing workshops, the Havana Book Festival and the publishing infrastructure) which reveal how this culture is created in contemporary Cuba. It thus contributes a new and complex vision of revolutionary Cuban culture which is as detailed as it is comprehensive.
One Island Many Voices
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Author : Eduardo del Rio
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2008-10-15
One Island Many Voices written by Eduardo del Rio and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Cuban-American writers have been studied primarily within the context of Latino literature as a whole. Seeing a need to distinguish and define this unique literary perspective, Eduardo del Rio selected twelve important well-known authors and conducted interviews. He chose writers who were born in Cuba but have lived in the United States for a significant amount of time and whose works include themes he considers elemental to Cuban-American literature: identity, duality, memory, and exile. But rather than a cohesive, homogeneous group, these conversations unveiled a kaleidoscope of individuality, style, and motive. The authorsÕ bonds to Cuba inform their creative work in vastly different ways, and attempts to categorize their similarities only highlight the range of character and experience within this assemblage of talented writers. From playwright Dolores Prida to author and literary critic Gustavo PŽrez Firmat, these voices run the gamut of both genre and personality. In addition to the essential facts of literary accomplishment, the interviews include a wealth of insight into each writerÕs history, motivations, concerns, and relationship to language. These personal details serve to humanize and illuminate the unique circumstances and realities that have shaped both the authors and their work. What del Rio has ultimately brought together is a series of intimate sketches that will not only serve as an important reference for any discussion of the literature but will also help readers to develop for themselves a sense of what Cuban-American writing is, and what it is not. CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Nilo Cruz Roberto Fern‡ndez Cristina Garc’a Carolina Hospital Eduardo Machado Dionisio Mart’nez Pablo Medina Achy Obejas Ricardo Pau-Llosa Gustavo PŽrez Firmat Dolores Prida Virgil Su‡rez Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Cuba And The Tempest
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Author : Eduardo González
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006-12-08
Cuba And The Tempest written by Eduardo González and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonzalez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonzalez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodovar. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonzalez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.
Writing To Cuba
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Author : Rodrigo Lazo
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006-03-08
Writing To Cuba written by Rodrigo Lazo and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States. Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo argues that to understand these writers and their publications, we must move beyond nation-based models of literary study and consider their connections to both Cuba and the United States. Anchored by the publication of Spanish- and English-language newspapers in the United States, the transnational culture of writers Lazo calls los filibusteros went hand in hand with a long-standing economic flow between the countries and was spurred on by the writers' belief in the American promise of freedom and the hemispheric ambitions of the expansionist U.S. government. Analyzing how U.S. politicians, journalists, and novelists debated the future of Cuba, Lazo argues that the war of words carried out in Cuban-U.S. print culture played a significant role in developing nineteenth-century conceptions of territory, colonialism, and citizenship.