Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI PDF Download

Author: Araceli Tinajero
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 308

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Intelectuales de diferentes disciplinas (arte, historia, antropología, estudios literarios, sociología y música) abordan el panorama político, cultural, social y artístico contemporáneo de la isla.

Author: Yannelys Aparicio
Publisher: Editorial Verbum
ISBN: 8490745269
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 150

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La situación económica, política y cultural de Cuba ha sido siempre un tema de interés internacional desde 1959, pero en la actualidad, la evolución de la Isla ha cobrado todavía más importancia, desde que en 2014 comenzaran los diálogos entre la Isla, los Estados Unidos y el Papa Francisco, hasta la muerte de Fidel Castro a finales de 2016. Este libro propone un análisis de las condiciones culturales que han propiciado esta nueva etapa histórica, profundizando en las raíces de la identidad cubana y rastreando los factores históricos y culturales que han determinado la evolución de la Isla en el siglo XX, a través de la literatura más reciente. Es un tema que requiere un acercamiento técnico y objetivo, para no caer en apasionadas defensas o feroces ataques de carácter ideológico, sin fundamentos culturales o históricos, y que tiene su base en las manifestaciones escritas de calidad literaria, que son a su vez profundas reflexiones sobre la situación de Cuba. Rafael Rojas, Leonardo Padura, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Yannelys Aparicio, Mónica Simal y Ángel Esteban repasan esa actualidad, retomando las diversas etapas de la literatura y el cine cubanos desde los sesenta hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI.

Author: Sarah Brouillette
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319630555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous ‘now’. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary as an always plural, heterogeneous, and contested temporality. Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent ‘end of history’ with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline’s rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures. It opens up the concept of the contemporary for comparative study by unlocking its temporal, logical, political, and ultimately aesthetic and literary complexity.

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Category : Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 470

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Author: Patricia Swier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611475902
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and visual art. By looking at the similarities and differences of dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin America and Spain, the authors hope to provide a more panoramic view of the dictatorship that moves beyond historiographical accounts of oppression and engages actively in a more broad dialectics of resistance and a politics of memory.

Author: Elena Lahr-Vivaz
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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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.

Author: Ivette Fuentes
Publisher:
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Category : Cuban literature
Languages : es
Pages : 188

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Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110395428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

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Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

Author: Erik André Andersen
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9004279245
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars of different disciplines offer new insight into transatlantic approaches to human rights. At a time when global challenges (economic crises, poverty, terrorism, mass migration and climate change) have a profound impact on the universal development of human rights and democracy, a common transatlantic understanding of human rights may prove instrumental in meeting these challenges. Through conceptual discussions, by analysing different human rights topics in different periods and regions (Europe, the United States and Latin America), and by focusing on a diverse range of actors, from policy makers and judicial institutions to academics and civil society, the authors identify key developments of human rights within a transatlantic framework.

Author: Eric Hershberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319295950
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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This book explores the diverse consequences of Presidents Obama and Castro brokering a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more than half a century of estrangement. Economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics are analyzed in accessible fashion by leading experts from Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. What opportunities arise through the opening of diplomatic relations, and what issues may be obstacles to normalization? What are the implications for the Cuban economy, for its political system, and for ties with members of the Cuban diaspora? What are the implications for US relations elsewhere in Latin America? This up-to-date account addresses these and other questions about this new direction in US-Cuban relations.