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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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The Coolie Speaks
Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture,The Coolie Speaksoffers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a \"coolie narrative\" that forms a counterpart to the \"slave narrative.\" The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom.
Yun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the \"contract\" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.
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Cuba and Puerto Rico
The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their
diasporas
This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba
and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary
perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the
interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories
such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced
and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and
their diasporas.
Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on
Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and
sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States.
The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation
of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with
sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely
intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food,
musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss
literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the
aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the
representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts
of migration.
Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been
linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently,
Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach
to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of
diasporic communities and continuities.
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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Literary culture in Cuba
Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture.
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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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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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Politics and violence in Cuban and Argentine theater
\"This book examines how violence was used as a spectacle in Cuban and Argentine theater in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reflection of and a dialogue with the violence occurring in the public arena. Using the international affair of the Caso Padilla as a way to appreciate how the notion of revolutionary spectacle pertains to culture, Ford deftly examines the use of violence in four plays from Cuba and Argentina to understand how simulated violence was used as a tool to address the very real violence that was taking place offstage.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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