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Periphērica
This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (2006), by T... more This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (2006), by Teresa Dovalpage, a novel that parodically interrogates the social impact of economic dynamics in post-Soviet Cuba, based on a scriptural enterprise that uses intertextuality and self-referentiality. The writer deploys a series of postmodern strategies in which both subjects and Spanish Baroque pictorial signs are mobilized and parodied in the same operation as they are relocated onto a specific local urban space: Havana. I propose here that the author includes herself, as Velázquez would do in Las Meninas, not to shed light on representational strategies, but to draw attention to the figure of the migrant writer in a regional linguistic market, who must capture the gaze of Spanish transnational publishers, who exercise a hegemonic control in that market.
Periphērica, 2022
This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana, by Teresa D... more This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana, by Teresa Dovalpage, a novel that parodically interrogates the social impact of economic dynamics in post-Soviet Cuba, based on a scriptural enterprise that uses intertextuality and self-referentiality. The writer deploys a series of postmodern strategies in which both subjects and Spanish Baroque pictorial signs are mobilized and parodied in the same operation as they are relocated onto a specific local urban space: Havana. I propose here that the author includes herself, as Velázquez would do in Las Meninas, not to shed light on representational strategies, but to draw attention to the figure of the migrant writer in a regional linguistic market, who must capture the gaze of Spanish transnational publishers, who exercise a hegemonic control in that market.
Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts, Aug 24, 2022
Parse journal, 2020
This essay explores the role of performance art in redefining blackness in the transnational sphe... more This essay explores the role of performance art in redefining blackness in the transnational sphere within the logic of "global apartheid" as defined by Manning Marable. It particularly addresses how imagined and lived blackness(es) continue to express life in proximity to death, yet persist in life, as conveyed in the performances of Afro-Cuban artist Carlos Martiel, who resides in the US. His work trespasses the national framework, either regarding Cuba or the United States, to engage in a cross-border solidarity that confronts the realities of black people and other subaltern groups within contemporary global neo-liberalism. Martiel's use of his body as canvas points towards the differentiated histories behind today's migratory movements that bear witness to the perpetuation of unequal guarantees of life, safety and hospitality for non-Western immigrants. I argue that the immediacy of the performance, instead of creating a community of strangers, reveals the fragility of guarantees for non-white bodies subjected to historical violence, and in so doing, his work circumvents the possibility of appropriation by Western audiences of any enduring suffering.
Latin American Theatre Review, Volume 49, Number 2, Spring 2016, pp. 69-89 (Article), 2016
Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedad... more Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedades del espanol, y de estas variedades con el ingles, produciendo encuentros que arrojan luz sobre la dimension transnacional de la lengua. Ademas, se cuestionara la concepcion de un espanol neutro en redes como Univision y Cisneros Media. El concepto de espanol neutro se conecta con estrategias de expansion del mercado televisivo.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City, 2019
Cuban Studies, 2018
El despliegue del documental cubano tiene lugar en los anos sesenta. Los cineastas comienzan a ex... more El despliegue del documental cubano tiene lugar en los anos sesenta. Los cineastas comienzan a experimentar con ideas y conceptos tanto de Europa Occidental como del llamado Bloque Comunista, que se referenciaran en este trabajo. A partir del analisis textual de dos documentales, exploramos la reflexividad como una herramienta conceptual y critica utilizada por los cineastas para visualizar el proceso mismo de produccion cinematografica. Comparo este concepto en las obras Por primera vez , de Octavio Cortazar, y Coffea Arabiga , de Nicolas Guillen Landrian. El primero afirma la distancia entre espectadores urbanos y rurales, una brecha que intenta disminuir al transmitir el autodescubrimiento del campesino como audiencia. A pesar de que el documental revela al individuo detras de las masas (a lo Ivens), el supuesto sujeto protagonista de la revolucion esta privado de agencia en ambos proyectos: el cine y la agenda del estado. En cambio, la reflexividad de Coffea Arabiga arroja luz s...
of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Lillian Manzor... more of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Lillian Manzor No. of pages in text. (235) My dissertation investigates the intermingling of discourses of migration and aesthetics within global market dynamics in the cultural production of late Cuban émigrés in the U.S. and Europe, to whom I refer as “the children of the revolution” —following Mette Louise Berg. I argue that this understudied migratory generation has replaced the diasporic teleology of return of the exile community with other imaginaries. As such, my dissertation sheds light not only on the varying ways of being Cuban in today’s world, but also on the different routes of the children of the revolution in the diaspora. By engaging in a multidisciplinary perspective that involves concepts from diaspora and migration studies in tandem with cultural, literary, and performance studies, I demonstrate how internationalism as an ethical and political ideology predicated by the Cuban revolu...
Letras Femeninas. A Journal of Women and Gender Studies in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, 2015
Cuadernos AISPI, 2016
Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedad... more Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedades del espanol, y de estas variedades con el ingles, produciendo encuentros que arrojan luz sobre la dimension transnacional de la lengua. Ademas, se cuestionara la concepcion de un espanol neutro en redes como Univision y Cisneros Media. El concepto de espanol neutro se conecta con estrategias de expansion del mercado televisivo.
Latin American Theatre Review, 2016
This study focuses on the relationship between theatre and visual and performance art in the work... more This study focuses on the relationship between theatre and visual and performance art in the work of Leandro Soto during the 1980s, when Cuban cultural policy aimed at “ideological purity” and constrained artistic freedom. Ironically, this attitude catalyzed the contamination of disciplines and a spirit of anti-normalization among artists, thus bringing about a dialogue between art, memory, and the historical archive. This article argues that such an integration of artistic codes, along with the recycling of the archive, promoted the role of performance art as a hybrid and contestatory practice par excellence, not only in Havana but in other parts of Cuba as well. Finally, by analyzing the performance piece Ancestros and the play Weekend in Bahia, where Soto returns as set designer, the study emphasizes the potential of art to contest and shape collective memory.
Periphērica
This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (2006), by T... more This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (2006), by Teresa Dovalpage, a novel that parodically interrogates the social impact of economic dynamics in post-Soviet Cuba, based on a scriptural enterprise that uses intertextuality and self-referentiality. The writer deploys a series of postmodern strategies in which both subjects and Spanish Baroque pictorial signs are mobilized and parodied in the same operation as they are relocated onto a specific local urban space: Havana. I propose here that the author includes herself, as Velázquez would do in Las Meninas, not to shed light on representational strategies, but to draw attention to the figure of the migrant writer in a regional linguistic market, who must capture the gaze of Spanish transnational publishers, who exercise a hegemonic control in that market.
Periphērica, 2022
This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana, by Teresa D... more This essay analyzes the visual strategies used in Muerte de un murciano en La Habana, by Teresa Dovalpage, a novel that parodically interrogates the social impact of economic dynamics in post-Soviet Cuba, based on a scriptural enterprise that uses intertextuality and self-referentiality. The writer deploys a series of postmodern strategies in which both subjects and Spanish Baroque pictorial signs are mobilized and parodied in the same operation as they are relocated onto a specific local urban space: Havana. I propose here that the author includes herself, as Velázquez would do in Las Meninas, not to shed light on representational strategies, but to draw attention to the figure of the migrant writer in a regional linguistic market, who must capture the gaze of Spanish transnational publishers, who exercise a hegemonic control in that market.
Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts, Aug 24, 2022
Parse journal, 2020
This essay explores the role of performance art in redefining blackness in the transnational sphe... more This essay explores the role of performance art in redefining blackness in the transnational sphere within the logic of "global apartheid" as defined by Manning Marable. It particularly addresses how imagined and lived blackness(es) continue to express life in proximity to death, yet persist in life, as conveyed in the performances of Afro-Cuban artist Carlos Martiel, who resides in the US. His work trespasses the national framework, either regarding Cuba or the United States, to engage in a cross-border solidarity that confronts the realities of black people and other subaltern groups within contemporary global neo-liberalism. Martiel's use of his body as canvas points towards the differentiated histories behind today's migratory movements that bear witness to the perpetuation of unequal guarantees of life, safety and hospitality for non-Western immigrants. I argue that the immediacy of the performance, instead of creating a community of strangers, reveals the fragility of guarantees for non-white bodies subjected to historical violence, and in so doing, his work circumvents the possibility of appropriation by Western audiences of any enduring suffering.
Latin American Theatre Review, Volume 49, Number 2, Spring 2016, pp. 69-89 (Article), 2016
Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedad... more Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedades del espanol, y de estas variedades con el ingles, produciendo encuentros que arrojan luz sobre la dimension transnacional de la lengua. Ademas, se cuestionara la concepcion de un espanol neutro en redes como Univision y Cisneros Media. El concepto de espanol neutro se conecta con estrategias de expansion del mercado televisivo.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City, 2019
Cuban Studies, 2018
El despliegue del documental cubano tiene lugar en los anos sesenta. Los cineastas comienzan a ex... more El despliegue del documental cubano tiene lugar en los anos sesenta. Los cineastas comienzan a experimentar con ideas y conceptos tanto de Europa Occidental como del llamado Bloque Comunista, que se referenciaran en este trabajo. A partir del analisis textual de dos documentales, exploramos la reflexividad como una herramienta conceptual y critica utilizada por los cineastas para visualizar el proceso mismo de produccion cinematografica. Comparo este concepto en las obras Por primera vez , de Octavio Cortazar, y Coffea Arabiga , de Nicolas Guillen Landrian. El primero afirma la distancia entre espectadores urbanos y rurales, una brecha que intenta disminuir al transmitir el autodescubrimiento del campesino como audiencia. A pesar de que el documental revela al individuo detras de las masas (a lo Ivens), el supuesto sujeto protagonista de la revolucion esta privado de agencia en ambos proyectos: el cine y la agenda del estado. En cambio, la reflexividad de Coffea Arabiga arroja luz s...
of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Lillian Manzor... more of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Lillian Manzor No. of pages in text. (235) My dissertation investigates the intermingling of discourses of migration and aesthetics within global market dynamics in the cultural production of late Cuban émigrés in the U.S. and Europe, to whom I refer as “the children of the revolution” —following Mette Louise Berg. I argue that this understudied migratory generation has replaced the diasporic teleology of return of the exile community with other imaginaries. As such, my dissertation sheds light not only on the varying ways of being Cuban in today’s world, but also on the different routes of the children of the revolution in the diaspora. By engaging in a multidisciplinary perspective that involves concepts from diaspora and migration studies in tandem with cultural, literary, and performance studies, I demonstrate how internationalism as an ethical and political ideology predicated by the Cuban revolu...
Letras Femeninas. A Journal of Women and Gender Studies in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, 2015
Cuadernos AISPI, 2016
Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedad... more Este articulo enfocara el contacto, en estaciones de television hispanas en EE UU, entre variedades del espanol, y de estas variedades con el ingles, produciendo encuentros que arrojan luz sobre la dimension transnacional de la lengua. Ademas, se cuestionara la concepcion de un espanol neutro en redes como Univision y Cisneros Media. El concepto de espanol neutro se conecta con estrategias de expansion del mercado televisivo.
Latin American Theatre Review, 2016
This study focuses on the relationship between theatre and visual and performance art in the work... more This study focuses on the relationship between theatre and visual and performance art in the work of Leandro Soto during the 1980s, when Cuban cultural policy aimed at “ideological purity” and constrained artistic freedom. Ironically, this attitude catalyzed the contamination of disciplines and a spirit of anti-normalization among artists, thus bringing about a dialogue between art, memory, and the historical archive. This article argues that such an integration of artistic codes, along with the recycling of the archive, promoted the role of performance art as a hybrid and contestatory practice par excellence, not only in Havana but in other parts of Cuba as well. Finally, by analyzing the performance piece Ancestros and the play Weekend in Bahia, where Soto returns as set designer, the study emphasizes the potential of art to contest and shape collective memory.