What are the main contributions of Hispanic cultural products and practices today? This book is a collection of essays on new critical trends in Hispanic Caribbean thinking. It offers an update on the state of Hispanic Caribbean studies through the discussion of diverse theoretical perspectives around notions of affect, archipelagic thinking, deterritoriality, and queer experiences and subjectivities. These eccentric Caribbean and aquatic imaginaries move beyond those that are circumscribed by identity, nation, insularity, and the colonial epistemologies derived from these conceptions. Due to its cultural and historical specificities, the Hispanic Caribbean constitutes a focus of study crucial to re-thinking global dynamics today.
Author(s): Magdalena López, María Teresa Vera-Rojas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 215
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: New Theoretical Dialogues and Critical Reflections on Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Introduction
Identitarianism, Insularism and Liberationism in Hispanic Caribbean Studies
New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Towards an Archipelagic Effect (): Poetics, Politics and Sensorium in the Caribbean
Introduction
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Inland Caribbean: A Glance into Wayuu Space
Introduction: Beyond the Island
Inland Caribbean
Wayuu Space
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Challenging a South Red Atlantic: A Post-Liberationist Critique of the Hispanic Caribbean
Introduction
Racial Mixing and Luso-Tropicalism in the South Atlantic
Black and Red Atlantics
Cuba in Angola
Counter-Narratives
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Place Becoming Space: Nation and Deterritorialisation in Cuban Narrative of the Twenty-First Century
Introduction
The Erasure of the Place of Enunciation
Disintegrated Landscapes, Limits and Lost Selves
Desacralisation of the Construct of the Nation: Heroes, Symbols and Archive
Parody and Deconstruction of Material Territorialising Forms
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Sea/See Fluids, Reimagined Landscapes: Looking into Lesbian Desire in Sand Dollars and Liz in September
Introduction
“I Very Much Like Your Body, Did You Know? How Much Is It?”: Sex Trade, Sea Fluids and (Un)Natural Landscapes in Sand Dollars
“I Like Making Love to Women. Don’t You?” The Lesbian Body, Disease and the Marine Imaginary in Liz in September
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Social Engagement and/against Creativity: Art Making, Collective Agency and the Politics of Urgency in the Hispanic Caribbean
Introduction
The Contradictions of Artistic Creativity in the Hispanic Caribbean
Linking the Caribbean
From Laboratory to Creative Hub
Conclusion: Maritime Synergies and Alternative Archipelagic (Art) Histories
Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Queer Hispanic Caribbean: Contemporary Revisions of Its Genealogies
Introduction
Looking Back: The Legacy of the 1970s
The Historical Context: The 1970s Reviewed from the Present
The Literary Revision: Who Inherits the Revolution?
The Call to Action: Contemporary Queer Hispanic Caribbean Movements
Bibliography
Chapter 9: “Holland” in the Caribbean: Voids Between the Spanish-Speaking World and the Lower Countries
Introduction
Dutch Maritime History
Caribbean Enlightenment
Connections with Spanish America
The Spanish Mainland
“Voids”
Bibliography
Chapter 10: The Caribbean Without a Sea: Approaches to Caribbean Immigration in Madrid
Introduction
Succinct Review of the Issue: Caribbean Migration in Spain and Madrid
Self-Organisation and Entrepreneurship for Territorial Action
The Caribbean in Madrid: A Madrid with Beaches
Coordinate 1: Caribbean Spaces
Coordinate 2: The Danceable Spaces
Coordinate 3: Collective/Associative Spaces
By Way of a Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
