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A Pool of Water: Backyard Borders between Cuba and the United States
Response to Glenda León’s installation artwork Sueño de verano (“Summer Dream,” 2012) and Juana Valdes’s installation artwork, Te-Amo (“I-Love-You,” 2007)
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Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
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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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Ana Mendieta: Art, Artist and Literary Afterlives
Ana Mendieta fue una de las más prolíficas y consagradas mujeres artistas cubano-americanas del siglo XX. La influencia de Mendieta en generaciones posteriores de artistas es innegable, y un creciente número de autores reconoce tanto su relevancia en la historia del arte feminista cubano y norteamericano. Sin embargo, casi nada se ha escrito sobre cómo es representada en la literatura, y cómo esas reconstrucciones literarias abordan algunas de las cuestiones sin resolver que todavía persisten en relación a la artista, su obra, su relación con Cuba, su vida personal y su trágica muerte. Este ensayo pretende abordar esa falta a través de una discusión de textos de escritoras cubanas, cubano-americanas y canadienses. Ana Mendieta was one of the most prolific and certainly the most prominent Cuban-American woman artist of the twentieth century. Mendieta's influence on successive generations of artists is undeniable and a growing bibliography on her recognises both her relevance in Cuban and North American feminist art history. However, there is almost nothing written about how she has been represented in literature and how these literary reconstructions address some of the many unanswered questions which remain concerning the artist, her art, her relationship with Cuba, her personal life and her tragic death. This essay begins to address this gap through its discussion of texts by Cuban, Cuban-American and Canadian women writers.
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Introduction
This introductory chapter explains how Afro-Cuban American literature and performance exemplify afrolatinidad: the Afro-Latino condition in the United States which includes, but is not limited to, those with origins in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. Central to afrolatinidad is the social difference that blackness makes in the United States. If an Afro-Latino difference reveals how, for Afro-Cuban Americans, encounters with white Cuban Americans may lead to exclusion, then it is true that Afro-Cuban Americans may occupy with white Cuban Americans the space of an apparent multiracial inclusion through a shared cubanoamericanidad. This Cuban Americanness purports an understanding beyond race among Cubans in the United States. The chapter aims to challenge Cuban America's normate whiteness and to propose an Afro-Cuban America, one made visible in texts ranging from the Caribbean Latino modernist period to the founding of a Cuban Miami in the late twentieth century.
Book Chapter
Unbecoming Blackness
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.Lopez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O'Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Romulo Lachatanere, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an unbecoming relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
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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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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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Life on the hyphen : the Cuban-American way
With fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and José Kozer, have lived “life on the hyphen,” this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study of Cuban-American culture.
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