Enrico Mario Santí gathers here thirty years´ worth of essays on Latin American literature and literary theory. The title reflects his enduring interest in the history, literature and culture of Cuba, subject of many of the essays. While most of the book deals with literature —ranging from aspects of canonical Latin American figures like Borges, Neruda and Paz, to Caribbean exceptionality and the pedagogy of Cultural Studies— some of it intersects forays into history, politics and art, including music. Indeed, such intersection, polemical perhaps, constitutes the essays’ common theme and makes them timely, too, particularly today, when culture rather than literature, or art, or even politics, is meant to carry the day for civic responsibility in critical work.
- Cubierta
- Anteportada
- Portada
- Página de derechos de autor
- Índice
- Preface
- I. Contexts
- Enduring Cuba
- A Cuban Canon?
- Cheap Glasnost
- On National Identity
- Unburnt Bridges
- Wilde, Dreyfus, Disaster
- The Caribbean: Paradigm or Paradox?
- Latinamericanism and Restitution
- Deaf Dialogues: Literary and Cultural Studies
- II. Thinking Through José Martí
- Inventing a Nation
- Martí and Revolution
- The Crisis of Latinamericanism
- Thinking Through
- III. Readings
- Neruda X 2
- Isla Negra: An Afterword
- Forking Paths: Borges and Tragedy
- Ten Keys to The Labyrinth of Solitude
- Blanco: On the Presence of Absence
- Overture: The Other Time
- Letter on Recordatio
- Notes from Underdevelopment
- Textual Politics: Severo Sarduy
- Bodies of Crime: Becoming Cabrera Infante
- I am Alive
- Hermes Unbound: The Art of Ricardo Pau-Llosa
- Who Are You? The Search for Henriette Faber
- Heberto Padilla: The Impossible Novel
- Two Notes on Lydia Rubio
- Objects of desire: Ramón Alejandro
- Our Only Home: Humberto Calzada
- Postscript
- Sources
- List of Illustrations
- Index
- Contraportada
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