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Writing for inclusion : literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States
\"Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martâin Morâua Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Cuban-American literature and art : negotiating identities
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.
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Photographic ekphrasis in Cuban-American fiction : missing pictures and imagining loss and nostalgia
\"Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction offers new readings of Cuban-American novels and autobiographies, demonstrating that a focus on photographs (alluded to, analyzed, and/or obsessively recurrent in the narrative discourse) provides fresh insights into these texts. The study introduces the concept of photographic ekphrasis as a reading tool for diasporic literature and argues that visual images are important components of narratives about dislocation, nostalgia, and transcultural experience. Authors treated in depth include Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Oscar Hijuelos, Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, Achy Obejas, and Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction offers an original perspective on Cuban-American literature and contributes to the scholarship on ekphrasis and on the interactions between photography and narrative\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortíz addresses the question of Cuban-American diaspora and cultural identity by exploring the practices of smaller communities in such U.S. cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Highlighting various forms of cultural expression, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America traces underrepresented communities's responses to the threat of cultural disappearance in a hegemonic U.S. culture._x000B_
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Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin's epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, \"Miss Lizzie,\" figures prominently in four anthologies from the country's Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
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Writing for Inclusion
Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt from the post-slavery period. All four share sensitivity to their imperfect inclusion as full citizens, engage in an examination of the process of racialization that hinders them in seeking such inclusion, and contest their definition as non-citizens. Works discussed include the slave narratives of Manzano and Douglass, Manzano's poetry and play Zafira, andDouglass's oratory and novella The Heroic Slave. Also considered, within the context provided by Manzano and Douglass, are Morúa and Chesnutt's non-fiction writings about race and nation as well as their second-generation \"tragic mulata\" novels Sofía and The House Behind the Cedars. Based on an examination of the works of these four authors, Writing for Inclusion provides a detailed examination of examples of self-emancipation, the authors' symbolic use of language, their expression of social anxieties or irony within the quest for recognition, and their arguments for an inclusive vision of national identity beyond the quagmires of race. By focusing on the process of racialization and ideas of race and national identity in a comparative context, the study seeks to highlight the artificial and contested nature of both terms and suggest new ways to interrogate them in our present day.
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Writing Islands
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.
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Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts
and images of the twentieth century
This volume looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge
traditional assumptions about the body. Examining how writers and
artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences
throughout the past century, Christina García identifies historical
continuities in the way they have emphasized the shared materiality
of bodies. García shows how these works interact with ecologies of
the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and
ideologies.
García examines corporeality in a variety of works, including
the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and experimental writings of Severo
Sarduy; transspecies drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Roberto
Fabelo; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's popular queer film Fresa y
chocolate ; and contemporary narrative fictions by Ena Lucía
Portela, Antonio José Ponte, and Ahmel Echevarría. Using the lenses
of new materialism, critical race studies, critical animal studies,
queer studies, and poststructuralism, García engages with Cuban
cultural production at the intersection of diverse social
issues.
In this book, García explores how certain artistic practices
focus on portraying ecological relationships instead of
recognizable subjects or shared identity. Corporeal Readings of
Cuban Literature and Art demonstrates that through their
attention to the connections that different kinds of bodies share,
Cuban creators have long undermined rules of classification and
unification, reimagining community as shared vulnerability and
difference.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature
This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are \"remapping\" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas.Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural \"unbelonging\" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric.Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader \"Americas,\" these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as \"other\" to the nation.
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