Photographic Ekphrasis In Cuban American Fiction
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| Author | : Louisa Söllner |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2018-09-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004366385 |
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. Missing Pictures offers an original perspective on Cuban-American literature and contributes to the scholarship on ekphrasis and on the interactions between photography and narrative.
| Author | : Amy Mohr |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2019-05-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 152753524X |
Featuring essays from an international group of scholars, this volume addresses Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the American literary classic, and her controversial Go Set a Watchman (2015). The contributions include productive new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy. With a balance of critical analysis and pedagogical approaches, this provocative book will prove to be of particular interest to scholars seeking to reconcile the points of divergence in these two works. For educators at the secondary and university levels, the collection also offers current resources and perspectives on Lee’s novels.
| Author | : Ylce Irizarry |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2016-02-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0252098072 |
In this new study, Ylce Irizarry moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o America. Irizarry establishes four dominant categories of narrative--loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory--that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As she shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the weathered notions of arrival and assimilation. Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures instead tell stories that have little, if anything, to do with integration into the Anglo-American world. The result is the creation of new memory. This reformulation of cultural membership unmasks the neocolonial story and charts the conscious engagement of cultural memory. It outlines the ways contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o communities create belonging and memory of their ethnic origins. An engaging contribution to an important literary tradition, Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction privileges the stories Chicanas/os and Latinas/os remember about themselves rather than the stories of those subjugating them. NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2018; MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association, 2017
| Author | : Guillermina De Ferrari |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317813448 |
Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, this book argues that ethics and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals’ fidelity to the Revolution. Community and Culture does three things: it demonstrates that masculine sociality is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba’s socialist regime; it examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the emergent ethical and aesthetic paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision alternative forms of community and civil society.
| Author | : Modern Language Association of America |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 3176 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Languages, Modern |
| ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
| Author | : Andrea O'Reilly Herrera |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2008-06-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780791472002 |
Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.
| Author | : Achy Obejas |
| Publisher | : Cleis Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1573447005 |
Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile—from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality—and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home.
| Author | : Cristina García |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 1998-04-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0345406516 |
Reina and Constancia Agüero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la revolución, she now basks in the glow of her many admiring suitors, believing only in what she can grasp with her five senses. The pale and very petite Constancia lives in the United States, a beauty expert who sees miracles and portents wherever she looks. After she and her husband retire to Miami, she becomes haunted by the memory of her parents and the unexplained death of her beloved mother so long ago. Told in the stirring voices of their parents, their daughters, and themselves, The Agüero Sisters tells a mesmerizing story about the power of myth to mask, transform, and finally, reveal the truth--as two women move toward an uncertain, long awaited reunion.
| Author | : Ronald Cummings |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2021-02-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781108474009 |
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
| Author | : Linda Hutcheon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134986262 |
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
