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Geographies of Cubanidad
Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting a gap between the claim of racial harmony and the realities of inequality faced by Afro-Cubans since independence in 1898. In this book, Rebecca M. Bodenheimer argues that it is not only the recognition of racial difference that threatens to divide the nation, but that popular regional sentiment further contests the hegemonic national discourse. Given that the music is a prominent symbol of Cubanida...
The Portable Island
Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.
Gay Cuban Nation
With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, he maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which nationalism and other institutions of power struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Achy Obejas, Sonia Rivera-Valdés, and Reinaldo Arenas, Gay Cuban Nation shows ultimately that the specter of homosexuality is always lurking in the shadows of nationalist discourse.
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction
A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes. We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her ...
Literary Translation
In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them.
Cuban Women Writers
Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse.
La Reportera Roja
Con la vitalidad de la sangre se abren camino los personajes de los ocho relatos de La Reportera Roja. Desde el norte hasta el sur de México, desde la vuelta del siglo hasta finales de la década pasada, los personajes persiguen una estatura moral superior, pero terminan sucumbiendo ante el delirio personal, la venganza, la fatalidad de las estrellas. El amor –en sus diversas manifestaciones: filial, romántico y carnal– emerge en escenas de crueldad que difícilmente reconoceríamos como humanas, aunque ese choque nos incita a pensar que el amor es, a veces, un acto sanguinario en el que confluyen el instante del trauma y la conexión con el destino. La violencia aparece así como una búsqueda estética, de los sentidos entrelazados con la velocidad, en un mundo en el que las tradiciones familiares se imponen con ironía y poder, desvelando la dimensión mítica de una criminalidad primigenia, que mueve al lector a unir los puntos de un hado secreto. La Reportera Roja es un libro sobre el crimen que ha traspasado a México durante los últimos sexenios y es también una indagación narrativa que redefine la realidad con plasticidad, empatía y asombro.
Duelo y melancolía. Freud, conmemoración centenaria
"Yo soy, tú eres, él es, todos somos... lo que queda después de las pérdidas que sufrimos. Sufrimos por la ausencia de los objetos del amor pero seguimos soñando; el sueño y el fantasma son nuestra cura espontánea. Tan normal es que nos consolemos soñando como que nos aflijamos cada vez que perdemos algo, incluyendo las ilusiones y los ideales, las aspiraciones que no se concretaron, las fantasías que yacen en un horizonte que retrocede." Obra en conmemoración del libro de Freud, Duelo y melancolía. Fragmento de: América Espinoza, Ricardo García Valdez y Liora Stavchansky.
