Detective Fiction In Cuban Society And Culture

Author : Stephen Wilkinson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3039106988

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Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture by Stephen Wilkinson Pdf

This book examines Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes. The author traces the development of Cuban detective writing in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical context in which this genre emerged. The analysis includes discussion of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the Cuban revolution. The book concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social dynamics within that society as possible.

Author : Persephone Braham
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cuban fiction
ISBN : 1452906254

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Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons by Persephone Braham Pdf

Author : William J. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611480405

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Transatlantic Mysteries by William J. Nichols Pdf

Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán --from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain-- who both work in one specific genre--"noir" detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of "noir" detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order to infiltrate the market with formulaic "popular" literature while simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only underscore the effects of capital onliterary and cultural production but also explore the possibility for their writing to resist the influences of capital and question the role of an intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their writing Taibo and Vázquez Montalbánexamine the revolutionary possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.

Author : G. Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230614635

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Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction by G. Close Pdf

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.

Author : Ángela Dorado-Otero
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662711

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Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s by Ángela Dorado-Otero Pdf

The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

Author : Ted A. Henken,Miriam Celaya,Dimas Castellanos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216068884

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Cuba by Ted A. Henken,Miriam Celaya,Dimas Castellanos Pdf

Written by some of the best-known independent scholars, citizen journalists, cyber-activists, and bloggers living in Cuba today, this book presents a critical, complete, and unbiased overview of contemporary Cuba. In this era of ever-increasing globalization and communication across national borders, Cuba remains an isolated island oddly out of step with the rest of the world. And yet, Cuba is beginning to evolve via the important if still insufficient changes instituted by Raul Castro, who became president in 2008. This book supplies a uniquely independent, accurate, and critical perspective in order to evaluate these changes in the context of the island's rich and complex history and culture. Organized into seven topical chapters that address geography, history, politics and government, economics, society, culture, and contemporary issues, readers will gain a broad, insightful understanding of one of the most unusual, fascinating, and often misunderstood nations in the Western Hemisphere.

Author : Wiebke Beushausen,Anne Brüske,Ana-Sofia Commichau,Patrick Helber,Sinah Kloß
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839426920

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Caribbean Food Cultures by Wiebke Beushausen,Anne Brüske,Ana-Sofia Commichau,Patrick Helber,Sinah Kloß Pdf

»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of »authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism. The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.

Author : Joseph R. Hartman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986492

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Dictator's Dreamscape by Joseph R. Hartman Pdf

Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality.

Author : María Encarnación Martín López
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781855662889

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Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba by María Encarnación Martín López Pdf

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Author : Mauricio A. Font,Araceli Tinajero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315525006

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Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts by Mauricio A. Font,Araceli Tinajero Pdf

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971122

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Cuban Studies 38 by Louis A. Perez, Jr. Pdf

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.

Author : Janice Allan,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429842429

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction by Janice Allan,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Andrew Pepper Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.

Author : Jenni Ramone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569349

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Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace by Jenni Ramone Pdf

This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura’s Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair’s Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016). Chapters argue that while India’s literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer’s trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on ‘located reading’, enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.

Author : Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478059561

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Excited Delirium by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Pdf

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714284

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Heretics by Leonardo Padura Pdf

"Padura’s Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana’s port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel’s son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family’s lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt’s gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura’s novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.