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Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
2024
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Florida Press,University Press of Florida
ISBN
9781683404330, 1683404335, 1683404564, 9781683404569, 1683404483, 9781683404484
