Pedro Juan Gutierrez''s Dirty Realism - Reinventing Cuban Spaces

This work examines Gutiérrez’s Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba’s Special Period. The author offers a series of thematically arranged close readings that explore Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality via his signature semi-autobiographical narrative.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Juxtaposed Spaces
Chapter 2: La nada cubana
Chapter 3: Putting the "Dirty" in Dirty Realism
Chapter 4: Death Spaces
Chapter 5: Spiritual Realms
Chapter 6: Intertextualities
Chapter 7: Cuba from Afar
Appendix: Interview with Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

About the author

Lori Oxford is associate professor of Spanish and associate dean of the Brinson Honors College at Western Carolina University.

Summary

This work examines Gutiérrez’s Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba’s Special Period. The author offers a series of thematically arranged close readings that explore Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality via his signature semi-autobiographical narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Lori Oxford
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781666910032
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-003-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cuba, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino