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Yocandra In The Paradise Of Nada
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Author : Zoé Valdés
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 1997
Yocandra In The Paradise Of Nada written by Zoé Valdés and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
Along the way, we meet Yocandra's best friend, the Gusana, whose ticket out of Cuba is loveless marriage to an overweight Spaniard; and the Lynx, an artist and aesthete who floats his way into exile strapped to a raft.
Yocandra
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Author : Zoé Valdés
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Yocandra written by Zoé Valdés 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.
Searing and sensual, Yocandra has established Cuban writer Zoe Valdes as a defiant new voice in international fiction. Her unforgettable novel tells the story of a young woman trapped in the tropical paradise of her homeland where only anger or laughter or dreams or sex seem to have meaning. As Castro's regime turns her verdant island into a wasteland, Yocandra plots her own course of survival. At sixteen, she moves in with the Traitor, a phoney philosopher. Later she takes up with the Nihilist, a banned film-maker. We meet her best friend, the Gusana, and the Lynx, who escapes to Miami strapped to a raft. Savage and wickedly funny, Yocandra is a stunning novel of love and rage.
Am Ricanas Autocracy And Autobiographical Innovation
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Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Am Ricanas Autocracy And Autobiographical Innovation written by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic governments: the totalitarianism of Rafael Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, the dynasty of the Somoza family in Nicaragua, the charismatic, yet polemical impact of Juan and Eva Perón on the proletariat of Argentina, the controversial rule of Fidel Castro following Cuba’s 1959 revolution, and Augusto Pinochet’s coup d'état that transformed Chile into a police state. Each chapter traces emerging patterns of experimentation with autobiographical form and determines how specific autocratic methods of control suppress certain methods of self-representation and enable others. The book foregrounds ways in which women’s self-representation produces a counter-narrative that critiques and undermines dictatorial power with the depiction of women as self-aware, resisting subjects engaged in repositioning their gendered narratives of national identity.
From Sugar To Revolution
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Author : Myriam J.A. Chancy
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2013-02-05
From Sugar To Revolution written by Myriam J.A. Chancy and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti’s exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of “otherness” by assuming the role of “archaeologists of amnesia.” They seek to elucidate women’s variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identifications—identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations. Nations such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are still locked in battles over self-determination, but, as Chancy demonstrates, women’s gendered revisionings may open doors to less exclusionary imaginings of social and political realities for Caribbean people in general.
Come Weep With Me
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Author : Joyce C. Harte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-19
Come Weep With Me written by Joyce C. Harte and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This groundbreaking anthology represents the critical inquiry of literary scholars into the trope of loss and mourning in the work of women writers from the Caribbean archipelago. There is a great deal of recent scholarly interest in the relationship of loss and mourning yet there are no books specifically devoted to an examination of this trope in the works of Caribbean women writers. To fill this gap, this collection of original essays examines subjects that encompass the brutality of slavery, oppressive dictatorships, AIDS, and the catastrophe of the Mount Pele volcano that appear in the writings of women from the English, Spanish and French speaking Caribbean. It is an important addition to the contemporary discourse on loss and mourning. The project is an exciting and vital one because it brings together a multiplicity of perspectives and critical approaches to examine the works of writers such as Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Julia Alvarez and Maryse Condé. What emerges is a complex portrait of loss, mourning and remembrance that both enriches and challenges customary discourses of loss, mourning and melancholia.
Cuban Currency
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Author : Esther Katheryn Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Cuban Currency written by Esther Katheryn Whitfield and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly accessible to foreign consumers, and their interest in its culture boomed. Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the country’s spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Based on interviews and archival research in Havana, Esther Whitfield argues that writers have both challenged and profited from new transnational markets for their work, with far-reaching literary and ideological implications. Whitfield examines money and cross-cultural economic relations as they are inscribed in Cuban fiction. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte and others, she draws out writers’ engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity. Confronting the tourist and publishing industries’ roles in the transformation of the Cuban revolution into commercial capital, Whitfield identifies a body of fiction peculiarly attuned to the material and political challenges of the “special period.” Esther Whitfield is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University.
Let Spirit Speak
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Author : Vanessa K. Valdés
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Let Spirit Speak written by Vanessa K. Valdés and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African Diaspora in the Western hemisphere.
Gender And The Self In Latin American Literature
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Author : Emma Staniland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Gender And The Self In Latin American Literature written by Emma Staniland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Literary Collections categories.
This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration. Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.
Health Travels Cuban Health Care On And Off The Island
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Author : Nancy Burke
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013
Health Travels Cuban Health Care On And Off The Island written by Nancy Burke and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Health & Fitness categories.
This collection of essays challenges static and binary discourses regarding the Cuban healthcare system, bringing together papers that paint a nuanced and dynamic picture of the intricacies of Cuban health(care) as it is represented and experienced both on the island and around the world.
Writing Islands
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Author : Elena Lahr-Vivaz
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Writing Islands written by Elena Lahr-Vivaz and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
How contemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, Elena Lahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works of contemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering a new lens to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she argues that these writers approach their nation as part of a larger, transnational network of islands. Introducing the term “arcubiélago” to describe the spaces created by Cuban writers, both on the ground and in print, Lahr-Vivaz illuminates how transnational communities are forged and how they function across space and time. Lahr-Vivaz considers how poets, novelists, and essayists of the 1990s and 2000s built interconnected communities of readers through blogs, state-sponsored book fairs, informal methods of book circulation, and intertextual dialogues. Book chapters offer in-depth analyses of the works of writers as different as Reina María Rodríguez, known for lyrical poetry, and Zoé Valdés, known for strident critiques of Fidel Castro. Incorporating insights from on-site interviews in Cuba, Spain, and the United States, Lahr-Vivaz analyzes how writers maintained connections materially, through the distribution of works, and metaphorically, as their texts bridge spaces separated by geopolitics. Through a decolonizing methodology that resists limiting Cuba to a distinct geographic space, Writing Islands investigates the nuances of Cuban identity, the creation of alternate spaces of identity, the potential of the Internet for artistic expression, and the transnational bonds that join far-flung communities. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.