Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art by Christina M... - 9781683404415

Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and ArtThe Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking\nAuthor(s): Christina M. Garca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9781683404415, 978-1683404415\nSynopsis\nTracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth century\n\nThis volume looks at Cuban literature and art that challenges traditional assumptions about the body. Examining how writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, Christina Garca identifies historical continuities in the way they have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies.\n\nGarca shows how these works interact with ecologies of the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies.\n\nGarca examines corporeality in a variety of works, including the poetry of Nicols Guilln and experimental writings of Severo Sarduy; transspecie.