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Description of  Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking

1683404416 rar Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth century This volume looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge 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. Garca shows how these works interact with ecologies of the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies. Garca examines corporeality in a variety of works, including the poetry of Nicols Guilln and experimental writings of Severo Sarduy transspecies drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Roberto Fabelo Toms Gutirrez Aleas popular queer film Read more