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

By Lori Oxford

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