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Home in Florida
Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal for Anthology National Indie Excellence Awards, Finalist in the Anthology Category International Latino Book Awards, Gold Medal for Best Fiction (Multi-Author) International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Nonfiction (Multi-Author) A powerful collection of contemporary voices Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, ...
The Transparency of Time
From Leonardo Padura—whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix’s Four Seasons in Havana—The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stole...
Conversation at Princeton
A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo. Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course on literature and politics with Rubén Gallo. Over several classes, the two writers spoke to students about the theory of the novel and the relationship between journalism, politics, and literature through five beloved books by the Nobel laureate: Conversation in The Cathedral, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, A Fish in the Water, and The Feast of the Goat. Conversation at Princeton records these exhilarating discussions and captures the three complementary perspect...
Call Me Cassandra
Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction “Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn’t understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three...
Ciudadpedia
Ciudadpedia señaliza un lenguaje rudimentario y exprofeso, aludiendo a una simbiosis de desespero y claustro dentro de un cronotopo que consumen a sus personajes dejando solo espacio para la duda y la ira contenida. Se apropia de los ritmos interiores del individuo, de la ciudad, de la existencia. Este libro retuerce las historias a la misma dimensión de los estados de hábitat de sus personajes. Someterá al lector a sobrevivir dentro de estas condiciones fisiológicas extremas donde la ignorancia social apenas permite una obertura que hace transitar desde lo etnográfico localizado a los subsistemas universales. Desde la primera persona autómata e ignorante hasta una configuración errada de la cosmovisión. Al unísono, la deformación antropológica de la psiques y la lengua, del sexo y el oscurantismo crean estas nuevas normas de supervivencia.
The Black Cathedral
Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.
Krisenumschreibungen
Welche Potenziale bieten Krisen? Welche gesellschaftliche Funktion übernimmt Kunst in Krisenzeiten? Wann führt die Auseinandersetzung mit Krisen zur Resilienz, wann zur Revolte? Inwieweit bieten Krisen und Krisennarrationen einen Interventions-, Innovations- und Inspirationsraum? Auf diese Fragen schlägt dieser Band Antworten vor, ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass zahlreiche ästhetisch durchgebildete Text- und Bildmedien der Gegenwart auf wirtschaftliche, politische und soziale Krisensituationen reagieren. Die hier versammelten Beiträge zeigen allerdings nicht nur in synchroner, sondern auch in diachroner Perspektive Momente individueller und sozialer Ausweglosigkeit, die als ein Entgleisen der kollektiven und ein Entgleiten der eigenen Geschichte wahrgenommen werden, nicht aber notwendigerweise in Resignation münden. Im Gegenteil: Der Band zielt darauf ab, unterschiedliche mediale Ausdrucksformen historischer und gegenwärtiger Krisenreaktionen innerhalb der Romania zu bestimmen und zueinander in Beziehung zu setzen, um das gegenwartsdiagnostische Potenzial dieser Krisennarrationen und die daraus erwachsende Lust zur Intervention zu artikulieren.
Cuban Studies 38
Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.
