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Author: Ileana C. Zéndegui Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 184
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This study focuses on the works of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, one of the most prolific and controversial Latin American authors in the second half of the 20th century. (Written in Spanish) Preface Ileana Zendegui's book is a lucid and solidly documented study on Reinaldo Arenas, the most radical and subversive voice of the Cuban narrative of the last 45 years. The author has a keen knowledge of the prevalent approaches to the literary text in contemporary literary criticism, and this allows her to do an original reading of Arenas' texts from a new perspective of the paradigms of Postmodernity, assigning his writings a permanent transgressor dimension, in opposition to the official totalitarian discourse that the Cuban political power sustains. This relevant vision adds a different view to the studies on Reinaldo Arenas, and makes possible to categorize the work of the Cuban narrator as Postmodern and authentically revolutionary. in the last decades have omitted all references to the fact that it does not reflect the reality of a Postmodern culture, pointing out, very rightly so, that there is a reason for this omission: the political project of the Cuban revolution... has nothing in common with the Postmodern sensitivity -heterogeneous, pluralist, relativist, antiauthoritarian. This study demonstrates a sound knowledge of the concepts that define the Postmodern thought, and its applications to Arenas' writings reveal the transcendence of this author in contemporary Cuban narrative. This is an aspect that gives Zendegui's study a fundamental importance in the new approaches to the novelist's works. The texts chosen for the study of Ileana Zendegui offer a forceful and tragic vision of Cuban reality, unmasking the images of terror and alienation, of loneliness and oppression, of madness and death, and the desperate search for freedom, love and true human solidarity. command and usage of primary and secondary sources, bringing to the reader an understanding of the existential reality of human beings immersed into an ideological model that has made the dehumanization of man and the apocalypse its reason for existing. One of the most important contributions of this work to the study of Cuban narrative is the distinction that for the first time is established between the concept of lo real maravilloso, with Alejo Carpentier as its most renowned representative, and what the author identifies as lo irreal espantoso, a vision symbolized by Reinaldo Arenas. On defining Cuban experience as the antipode of Alejo Carpentier's vision, Zendegui demystifies, demythologizes, an escapist perception that has never had any relation with the hallucinating and tragic Cuban reality. The desolation and disintegration of a world rotten by its own contradictions, finds in Arenas' writings a powerful, expansive force, unknown until then in Cuban literature. Ileana Zendegui's study brings this out brilliantly. relation between Reinaldo Arenas' poem El Central, and Jose Marti's El presidio politico. Zendegui affirms that Arenas' text could be considered an extension, both at the ideological and thematic levels of that of Marti's. The premises established by Roland Barthes in relation to the concept of re-presentation, underlined by Jacques Derrida's vision on the act of reading, give Zendegui an opportunity to explore two texts that although separated by time are nonetheless very consequent in their intentionality and ethicity. It is surprising the similarity that even with their established differences the two texts have in common, making the reader aware of the ingrained vocation for freedom -not different from that of Jose Marti- that becomes the sediment of Arenas' writings. Ileana Zendegui's book is a relevant text in the bibliography on Reinaldo Arenas. who, with a transcending humanist and ethical vision, has left as a legacy a powerful sense of commitment in the struggle for affirming the will to be ourselves against the monsters of our time. Professor Reinaldo Sanchez(Ret.) Department of Modern Languages Florida International University
Author: Ileana C. Zéndegui Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
This study focuses on the works of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, one of the most prolific and controversial Latin American authors in the second half of the 20th century. (Written in Spanish) Preface Ileana Zendegui's book is a lucid and solidly documented study on Reinaldo Arenas, the most radical and subversive voice of the Cuban narrative of the last 45 years. The author has a keen knowledge of the prevalent approaches to the literary text in contemporary literary criticism, and this allows her to do an original reading of Arenas' texts from a new perspective of the paradigms of Postmodernity, assigning his writings a permanent transgressor dimension, in opposition to the official totalitarian discourse that the Cuban political power sustains. This relevant vision adds a different view to the studies on Reinaldo Arenas, and makes possible to categorize the work of the Cuban narrator as Postmodern and authentically revolutionary. in the last decades have omitted all references to the fact that it does not reflect the reality of a Postmodern culture, pointing out, very rightly so, that there is a reason for this omission: the political project of the Cuban revolution... has nothing in common with the Postmodern sensitivity -heterogeneous, pluralist, relativist, antiauthoritarian. This study demonstrates a sound knowledge of the concepts that define the Postmodern thought, and its applications to Arenas' writings reveal the transcendence of this author in contemporary Cuban narrative. This is an aspect that gives Zendegui's study a fundamental importance in the new approaches to the novelist's works. The texts chosen for the study of Ileana Zendegui offer a forceful and tragic vision of Cuban reality, unmasking the images of terror and alienation, of loneliness and oppression, of madness and death, and the desperate search for freedom, love and true human solidarity. command and usage of primary and secondary sources, bringing to the reader an understanding of the existential reality of human beings immersed into an ideological model that has made the dehumanization of man and the apocalypse its reason for existing. One of the most important contributions of this work to the study of Cuban narrative is the distinction that for the first time is established between the concept of lo real maravilloso, with Alejo Carpentier as its most renowned representative, and what the author identifies as lo irreal espantoso, a vision symbolized by Reinaldo Arenas. On defining Cuban experience as the antipode of Alejo Carpentier's vision, Zendegui demystifies, demythologizes, an escapist perception that has never had any relation with the hallucinating and tragic Cuban reality. The desolation and disintegration of a world rotten by its own contradictions, finds in Arenas' writings a powerful, expansive force, unknown until then in Cuban literature. Ileana Zendegui's study brings this out brilliantly. relation between Reinaldo Arenas' poem El Central, and Jose Marti's El presidio politico. Zendegui affirms that Arenas' text could be considered an extension, both at the ideological and thematic levels of that of Marti's. The premises established by Roland Barthes in relation to the concept of re-presentation, underlined by Jacques Derrida's vision on the act of reading, give Zendegui an opportunity to explore two texts that although separated by time are nonetheless very consequent in their intentionality and ethicity. It is surprising the similarity that even with their established differences the two texts have in common, making the reader aware of the ingrained vocation for freedom -not different from that of Jose Marti- that becomes the sediment of Arenas' writings. Ileana Zendegui's book is a relevant text in the bibliography on Reinaldo Arenas. who, with a transcending humanist and ethical vision, has left as a legacy a powerful sense of commitment in the struggle for affirming the will to be ourselves against the monsters of our time. Professor Reinaldo Sanchez(Ret.) Department of Modern Languages Florida International University
Author: Reinaldo Arenas Publisher: Tusquets Editores S.A. ISBN: 8490666717 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 500
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Después de la publicación de El color del verano, Celestino antes del alba y El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas (Andanzas 357, 395 y 428), le llega el turno a Otra vez el mar, cuarto título de la «pentagonía» de Reinaldo Arenas, esa exaltación de la libertad y el triunfo de la escritura por encima de toda suerte de represión, que presentamos a nuestros lectores siguiendo la revisión hecha por el propio autor sobre el texto publicado en 1982. Dividida en dos partes, Otra vez el mar tiene como protagonista a un joven matrimonio que consigue un permiso para pasar unos días en un lugar de veraneo. La narración transita mediante dos voces. La primera es la de una mujer anónima, temerosa de perder a su marido, Héctor, frustrada por la carga de la maternidad e incapaz de soportar la sociedad cubana bajo el sistema comunista. Sus pensamientos, entrelazados con lo cotidiano, revelan su tormento y el doloroso amor que siente por su marido, de quien sospecha que le es infiel, sobre todo cuando un hermoso y taciturno adolescente se instala con su locuaz madre en el apartamento contiguo. En la segunda parte es la voz de Héctor, poeta y revolucionario desencantado, la que de una forma alegórica nos habla de la vida cubana y de sí mismo. Arenas expresa así las frustraciones y la añoranza de la libertad de esos dos seres y, página a página, ilumina al lector en el laberinto de insatisfacciones y anhelos de la pareja.
Author: Richard Jerome Callan Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 188
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Mexican poet Paz (1914-98) wrote Blanco in Delhi while he was ambassador to India. Callan (emeritus, Spanish and humanities, U. of New Hampshire) argues that the poet intentionally and in great detail translated into his own metaphoric language the ancient practice of Yoga, especially as found in Tantric literature and developed in the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet. Assuming that readers are not necessarily familiar with Tantric yoga, he sets out its precepts before showing how Paz incorporated them. He discusses Blanco's physical layout and yogic fundamentals, channels and centers in the two bodies of yoga and in the poem, preliminary details on the subtle body in the poem, Paz on the word and language, and other topics. Quotations from the poem are in English and Spanish. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Alfonsina Storni Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 308
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This English translation of Alfonsina Storni gives scholars and students in the fields of Latin American literature, womenÆs studies and world theater the opportunity to study rare examples of theater written by a woman on very controversial and progressive issues at the beginning of the twentieth century. The translation is furnished with an introduction that reviews the whole theatrical production of Storni in relation to the historical and social developments of her time and places her work within the context of the literature and theater of Argentina and the Southern Cone.
Author: Reinaldo Arenas Publisher: Tusquets Editores, S.A. ISBN: 9788483104965 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 248
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Una vez concluida la publicación de la «pentagonía» con la que Reinaldo Arenas quiso alegorizar y criticar la represión de Cuba bajo el régimen castrista, recuperamos ahora la novela El portero, escrita en Nueva York, entre 1984 y 1986, y en la que se recrea el microcosmos de un rascacielos bajo la mirada perpleja del portero, un cubano exiliado, al igual que el propio Arenas, incapaz también de adaptarse a la American way of life. Juan, después de fracasar en diferentes trabajos, consigue un puesto como portero en un rascacielos de Manhattan. Allí, obsesionado con abrirles a los inquilinos la puerta no sólo del edificio sino también la de «la verdadera felicidad», topará con una extravagante galería de personajes, entre otros: Roy Friedman, de sesenta y cinco años, obsesionado con regalar caramelos a diestro y siniestro; Brenda Hill, «mujer algo descocada, soltera y ligeramente alcohólica»; Arthur Makadam, donjuán entrado en años e impotente; Casandra Levinson, «propagandista incesante de Fidel Castro» que al mismo tiempo goza de las comodidades capitalistas; los señores Oscar Times, «ambos homosexuales y tan semejantes física y moralmente que en realidad conforman como una sola persona»; Walter Skirius, científico obseso de los implantes artificiales... Al final, Juan sólo logra entenderse con las mascotas de los inquilinos del edificio, y con ellas emprenderá un viaje sin retorno.
Author: Reinaldo Arenas Publisher: Tusquets Editores S.A. ISBN: 8490666695 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 391
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En diciembre de 1990, Reinaldo Arenas, muy enfermo de SIDA, se suicidaba en Nueva York dejando este estremecedor testimonio personal y político, unas memorias a las que había puesto el punto final apenas unos días antes de acabar con su vida. Arenas reunía las tres condiciones ideales para convertirse en uno de los muchos parias perseguidos por el régimen carcelario de la Cuba castrista: era escritor, homosexual y disidente. La recuperación de este testimonio, ya un clásico, pone en evidencia que, treinta años después de aquel grito desgarrador, aún se silencia y encarcela a intelectuales y opositores, y sigue siendo más oportuna que nunca esta reivindicación de los derechos civiles y personales, ahora que parecen estar en un continuo retroceso. De los bajos fondos de La Habana, donde malviven los excluidos del sistema, a la opresión en el exterior, la vida de Arenas fue, muy a su pesar, una delicada y comprometida peripecia vital e intelectual.
Author: José Ismael Gutiérrez Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : es Pages : 240
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This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and the excluded rise up from a fringe that, for various reasons or motives, will always represent a place that lies beyond the borders -imaginary or real- of the spatial, political, cultural, linguistic and sexual communities to which they subscribe. And, these voices, regardless of the grouping to which they belong and the choices on which they base the necessity or purpose of their expressive survival, map out a work that, while being personal in its origins, speaks to a more general context. exile and about exile, provided that we draw a distinction between these two facets (to the extent that it is possible) by having regard to thematic nuances and gradations that give substance to the journeys that mould diatopic variations in the discourses of the uprooted. And, it is necessary to speak in plural because, beyond the characteristics or common motives of nationalities and the political fortunes that have left their mark on entire generations of exiles, exile as a phenomenon responds to the rootlessness in itself, the blank spaces and the lack of linguistic, affective and cultural continuity, with strategies, identity masks and tactics for representation and resistance that infuse each of these idiosyncratic discourses. Hence its originality and intrinsic solitude, hence its penitence, and hence also its familiar and irreplaceable expressive uniqueness. It does not take much reflection to conclude that Latin-American literature has and continues to emanate predominantly from internal or territorial exiles. historiography of Latin America, tower above the founding moments and extend far beyond the consolidation of the nation states. Think of a work such as El Facundo by the Argentine writer, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, written in the style of a political pamphlet in an attempt to justify the ostracism that the author suffered, thereby initiating, in more ways than one, the narrative of the American subcontinent and its peculiar combination of genres. Think also of the journeys of Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral and Julio Cortazar, amongst other intellectuals, not to mention the vast list of travellers in the 19th century who set out to explore large parts of the American and European continents, travelling as far as the Middle East; or, exile in reverse, experiencing its destabilising face, stirred up by the cultural agendas projected onto the literary establishment by the ruling elites, as occurred in the Rio de la Plata towards the end of the last century. the demands that stem from violence and the devastating side-effects of globalisation, has transformed the Latin America of our day into a continent of emigration. And, it is a fact that those aspects which shape the identity of the field of literature have had to undergo significant short-term and long-term reassessments in order to assimilate new cultural centres of gravity and heterogonous cultural elements. The work presented here by Jose Ismael Gutierrez shares a similar concern, namely the need for research, which for some time has been enriching the Latin-American literary bibliography in these parts, as never before. However, careful consideration reveals that this study is linked to one of the essential discursive categories of the literary phenomenon in the history of our literature, namely territorial displacement as a system, involuntary displacement and the stigma of exclusion. The author possesses an ample theoretical and historic background for his research of some of the many figures that serve as conduits for the writings of exiles on Latin-American soil. assessments are alternated with points of view drawn from sociology, politics, philosophy, psychology and culture in general. This studious Spaniard, with his keen observations, demonstrates his profound knowledge of the various periods in the literature of the New World, having previously sufficiently proven his command of the field with an exceptional list of academic essays and articles on the 19th and 20th century, which were published in these latitudes. Such experience and scholarship seem to me to be a necessary condition for understanding the evolution of the literature and culture of Latin America from its roots and also from a global perspective, in other words, without restricting one's point of view to regional or generational phenomena, which though interesting, are but of limited importance. which Professor Gutierrez devotes the following three sections -the Cuban authors, Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author, Fernando Ainsa- and the unusual manner in which their respective contributions are presented -each one from certain historic-cultural coordinates and from an own interpretative angle- extend a forceful and novel invitation to the reader, whose intelligence and aesthetic sensibilities will engaged while being guided, page after page, along the various experiences of certain concrete, real-life exiles, whose experiences are physical, external and geographical, while at the same time being internal and spiritual. These exiles open up brilliant areas of discussion, which the critical lucidity of the researcher once again transforms into an essential and penetrating lesson on the most complex dimensions of contemporary and earlier Latin-American literature.
Author: Enrique Morales-Díaz Publisher: ISBN: 9781604976175 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 192
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Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes (1943-1990) was a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and short story writer considered by many as one of the most eloquent and daring literary figures of his generation. Some of his most known works include the five novel series known as the Pentagony (Pentagona): Celestino antes del alba, El palacio de las blanqusimas mofetas, Otra vez el mar, El color del verano o el jardn de las delicias, and El as alto. Other literary works by Arenas include El central, Voluntad de vivir manifestndose, La vieja Rosa, Arturo, la estrella ms brillante, El mundo alucinante, Adios a mam, Antes que anochezca: una autobiografa and his one act plays Persecucin: cinco piezas de teatro experimental. The themes he explored in his writing ran counter to what Fidel Castro and the revolutionary regime expected from its intellectual citizens. While Castro wanted everyone that wished to be published on the island to succumb to the ideals of the revolution, to promote them in their works, Arenas refused because he believed in the artistic freedom of expression. While he began his adolescence in support of the rebels that were fighting against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, he began attacking the revolution when the institutionalized persecution of homosexuals began in Cuba. The research that has been done on Reinaldo Arenas has often focused on his sexuality and his opposition to the revolution. Hundreds of articles have dealt with either specific literary works or themes present in his writing, either using Queer Theory or more traditional literary analysis. However, none have focused on the idea that Arenas could be considered a postcolonial writer since there is a question as to whether that particular theoretical approach can be applied to that region. A study of the relationship between a writer such as Arenas, who refused to conform to the idea that the individual had to become part of a larger collective, and the iconic image of Caliban as he has been appropriated by many Latin American scholars and activists, is necessary to understand the conditions under which many marginalized groups lived whether we are referring to Cuba or any other Latin American country. This is the first critical study of Reinaldo Arenas from a postcolonial venue. It seeks to find the commonalities that exist between Arenas and the image of Caliban which first appeared in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The focus is to show how the appropriation of this seventeenth-century image of the New World native can be used to understand the goals of Arenas' writing: to counter attack the regime's goals and false promises which fueled his desire to create a literary counter-discourse that promoted freedom of expression and assertion of an identity separate from that expected by Cuban revolutionary society. Arenas' characters represent imperialistic influences in Cuba that opposed the regime's demands upon expected literary support of their agenda: not only because his characters could be interpreted as a form of mimesis of the treatment various individuals endured on the island, but also because Arenas' messages opposed the ideals of the Revolution. As homosexuality became marginalized and discrimination of homosexuals became institutionalized, Arenas' writing transgressed the expected silence by graphically describing his life, and particularly his sexual adventures and voracity. At the same time, his writings reflect a search for his identity and authorial voice. The arguments in this book focus on a discussion of Reinaldo Arenas' struggle against censorship focused precisely on reestablishing the individual the regime hopes to reeducate. The author's motivations for interpolating his writing at the root of the very society that denies him an existence can be equated to postcolonial discourse. This book is of interest to areas such as Latin American studies and postcolonial studies.
Author: Reinaldo Arenas Publisher: Tusquets Editores, S.A. ISBN: 9788483832134 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 0
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Es pleno verano y en la isla de Cuba comienza el gran carnaval que festeja los cincuenta años en el poder de Fifo , dictador ya viejo y enloquecido . Con agilidad y sarcasmo, en un relato lleno de divertidos guiños al lector, Reinaldo Arenas describe ora los actos desaforados que se han programado en homenaje al tirano , ora, y en palabras del propio autor, «la vida subterránea de una juventud desgarrada, erotizada, rebelde y a veces envilecida», pero que se niega a aceptar la prisión en que se ha convertido la isla. Los atropellos y luchas de los que se arriman al poder, las triquiñuelas para sobrevivir en la miseria y la represión, todo estalla durante la gran fiesta, y en medio del bullicio se desencadenan los deseos más desinhibidos, los rencores, las intrigas y el miedo. Porque, entre burlas y veras, El color del verano , novela testimonial, narra el horror -de quien vive en Cuba, pero también el exiliado- y la imposibilidad de acceder a un futuro merjor.
Author: Luis de la Paz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Authors, Cuban Languages : es Pages : 248
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Artículos, conferencias, cartas, poemas, ensayos y homenajes. La ironía y la lucidez, la poesía y la fatalidad, la rebeldía y el alarido de un autor maldito puestos al servicio de una sola causa y una sola verdad: la necesidad de libertad.
Author: Ileana C. Zéndegui
Author: Ileana C. Zéndegui
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Author: Richard Jerome Callan
Author: Alfonsina Storni
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Author: José Ismael Gutiérrez
Author: Enrique Morales-Díaz
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Author: Luis de la Paz