Tag: performance

Vestida de Pena: Embodied Experiences of Afro-Spiritual Knowledge in Mayra Santos-Febres and Rita Indiana

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Renata Pontes In this paper I analyze embodied experiences of Afro-Spiritual knowledge in Sirena Selena vestida de pena (Santos-Febres, 2000) and La mucama de Omicunlé (Indiana, 2015). Affirming the body and its potential, these literary works participate in “Black Atlantic” cultures and political economies—in transoceanic networks prompted by practices that claim African American traditions. Applying …

Unlearning el M(U)Chismo Cubano: How Grotesque Imagery Reveals the Paradoxes of Post-Revolution Masculinities in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s El rey de la Habana and Tomás Alea’s Fresa y chocolate

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Rebecca Barnes As the title indicates with the word mucho, machismo is associated with exaggerated masculinity: a lot of bravado and stoicism. Psychoanalytically, machismo is interpreted as “a reaction to deep-seated fears of inadequacy and latent homosexuality,” which results in the exaggeration of physical and personality traits traditionally thought to be masculine (Basham 127). In …

Dances in Cimarronaje: Sonic Errantry and the Fugitive Aesthetics of Dominican Dembow

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Gisabel Leonardo The contours of Latin America and the Caribbean, the borders that define terra firma against terra infirma, are inherently unstable. For those of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, this is known. The incertitude of belonging, the impulse to carve out entire populations on the basis of geographic, linguistic, ethnic, and/or racial difference, …

Regina José Galindo: lo abyecto, lo excesivo y necesario

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Rocío González-Espresati Clement Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, 1974-) es una poetisa y artista visual que utiliza el concepto de liminalidad de Ileana Diéguez como parte de sus obras activistas, pues su obra consiste en experiencias de crisis representadas directamente en su cuerpo. Esta artista visual guatemalteca aprovecha las oportunidades de teatralidad que presenta la vida …