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Book Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI

Download or read book Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI written by Araceli Tinajero and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelectuales de diferentes disciplinas (arte, historia, antropología, estudios literarios, sociología y música) abordan el panorama político, cultural, social y artístico contemporáneo de la isla.

Book Letras   cultura en Cuba

Download or read book Letras cultura en Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literatura y cultura cubanas en tiempos de cambio

Download or read book Literatura y cultura cubanas en tiempos de cambio written by Yannelys Aparicio and published by Editorial Verbum. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Literature and the Global Contemporary

Download or read book Literature and the Global Contemporary written by Sarah Brouillette and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book 2010

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2014-12-12
  • ISBN : 3110395428
  • Pages : 1152 pages

Download or read book 2010 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Readers and Writers in Cuba

Download or read book Readers and Writers in Cuba written by Pamela María Smorkaloff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Writing Islands

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  • Author : Elena Lahr-Vivaz
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2022-10-25
  • ISBN : 1683403312
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Writing Islands written by Elena Lahr-Vivaz and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book La cultura y la poes  a como nuevos paradigmas filos  ficos

Download or read book La cultura y la poes a como nuevos paradigmas filos ficos written by Ivette Fuentes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europe and the Americas

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  • Author : Erik André Andersen
  • Publisher : Hotei Publishing
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 9004279245
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Europe and the Americas written by Erik André Andersen and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Dictatorships in the Hispanic World

Download or read book Dictatorships in the Hispanic World written by Patricia Swier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Una mirada a la vida intelectual cubana  1940 1950

Download or read book Una mirada a la vida intelectual cubana 1940 1950 written by Jorge Domingo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba -- Vida intelectual -- S. XX. -- Intelectuales cubanos -- Correspondencia.

Book A New Chapter in US Cuba Relations

Download or read book A New Chapter in US Cuba Relations written by Eric Hershberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Migrant and Tourist Encounters

Download or read book Migrant and Tourist Encounters written by Andrea Easley Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism during the last three decades. I compare the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and ethics of im/mobility and encounter, both on the islands and in destinations abroad. The works draw attention to the interconnectedness of migration, tourism, and other forms of travel as well as immobility, and portray growing local and global inequalities through characters’ disparate access to free, voluntary movement. I consider how the works respond to the question of the moral potential of encounters produced by im/mobilities and the possibility of connection across differences. I argue that Dominican and Cuban artists not only critique neo-colonial paradigms of power and im/mobility, but envision and enact strategies for belonging and, in some cases, suggest a path toward de-colonial cosmopolitanism.

Book Culture and the Cuban State

Download or read book Culture and the Cuban State written by Yvon Grenier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics such as Tania Bruguera, Jesús Díaz, Rafael Hernández, Kcho, Reynier Leyva Novo, Leonardo Padura, and José Toirac. The cultural field is important for the reproduction of the regime in place, given its pretense and ambition to be eternally “revolutionary” and to lead a genuine “cultural revolution”. Cultural actors must be mobilized and handled with care, given their presumed disposition to speak their mind and to cherish their autonomy. This book argues that cultural actors also seek recognition by the main (for a long time the only) sponsor and patron of the art in Cuba: the “curator state”. The “curator state” is also a “gatekeeper state,” arbitrarily and selectively opening and closing the space for public expression and for access to foreign currencies and the global market. The time when everything was either mandatory or forbidden is over in Cuba. The regime seems to have learned from egregious mistakes that led to a massive exodus of artists, writers and academics. In a country where things change so everything could stay the same, the controlled opening in the cultural field, playing on the actors' ambition and fear, illuminates a broader phenomenon: the evolving rules of the political game in the longest standing dictatorship of the hemisphere.

Book A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan

Download or read book A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan written by Araceli Tinajero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades. Based on in-depth research in archives throughout the country as well as field work including several interviews, Japanese-speaking Mexican scholar Araceli Tinajero uncovers a transnational, contemporary cultural history that is not only important for today but for future generations.

Book The Whole Island

Download or read book The Whole Island written by Mark Weiss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world—among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar—and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets—both on and off the island—have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Book Cuban Studies 33

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisandro Perez
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2003-02-01
  • ISBN : 0822970716
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Cuban Studies 33 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.