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Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora

by Eduardo González
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780807856833
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: USD 44.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 391 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Caribbean & Latin American

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonz�lez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Ben�tez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.

Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonz�lez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonz�lez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonz�lez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almod�var. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonz�lez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.

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