Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking"
English | ISBN: 1683404416 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 18 MB
English | ISBN: 1683404416 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 18 MB
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
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