Alan West-Durán
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1099593 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan West-Durán |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | West-Durán |
| FIRMA | WEST-DURÁN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Northeastern University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Teleology, Tempests, and Voicings of History
This epilogue chapter draws on metaphors of opera to offer a layered meditation on recurrent themes, teleologies, and tropes of identity, exceptionalism, and authenticity – stated, reworked, subverted, abandoned, and resurrected in Cuban literary culture from the end of the nineteenth century into the third decade of the twenty-first. Revisiting such figures as José Martí, Julián del Casal, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Lor…
Mpambu Nzila
The article draws on the Kongo term mpambu nzila of crossroads, that equally signifies altar, to discuss the paintings and drawings of Cuban-born artist José Bedia. He is a practitioner of Palo Briyumba, a syncretic Afro-Cuban religion that combines Kongo religious beliefs, Regla de Ocha, Spiritism, and Catholicism. The article examines six works by the artist from 1984 to 1999 and how Bedia represents Palo in his art. Additionally, the centralit…
Hannah Arendt
“Remorse is for children.”—Eichmann“I cannot look at any more maps. The names of cities reek of burnt flesh.”—Elias Canetti“Genocide is the absolute integration. ... Auschwitz confirmed the idea of p
A Resonant Rum for the Ears
Canon a la Cañona
Cultural Residues. Chile in Transition
Rap's Diasporic Dialogues
En la esencia de los estilos y otros ensayos (review)
Alejo Carpentier said "Julián Orbón is the most unique and promising figure of the new Cuban school" when the composer was nineteen (Carpenter 1946, 336). At twenty-eight years of age, Orbón's Tres versiones sinfónicas (1953) won an award from a jury that consisted of Kleiber, Adolfo [End Page 150] Salazar, Varèse, and Villa-Lobos. Orbón (1925-91) was the musical prodigy and genius of the Orígenes generation that also published a Cuban literary m…
Music in Cuba
Tropics of History
This study offers a unique perspective in interpreting the cultural politics of Cuba's complex history through an exploration of the country's literature. The book introduces readers to some of Cuba's most eminent and engaging voices by examining some of the historical tropes put forth by major writers. Drawing on an array of interpretive approaches from mythopoetic analysis to phenomenology, West addresses the work of Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpen…
Mpambu Nzila
The article draws on the Kongo term mpambu nzila of crossroads, that equally signifies altar, to discuss the paintings and drawings of Cuban-born artist José Bedia. He is a practitioner of Palo Briyumba, a syncretic Afro-Cuban religion that combines Kongo religious beliefs, Regla de Ocha, Spiritism, and Catholicism. The article examines six works by the artist from 1984 to 1999 and how Bedia represents Palo in his art. Additionally, the centralit…
Tropics of History
This study offers a unique perspective in interpreting the cultural politics of Cuba's complex history through an exploration of the country's literature. The book introduces readers to some of Cuba's most eminent and engaging voices by examining some of the historical tropes put forth by major writers. Drawing on an array of interpretive approaches from mythopoetic analysis to phenomenology, West addresses the work of Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpen…
Music in Cuba
En la esencia de los estilos y otros ensayos (review)
Alejo Carpentier said "Julián Orbón is the most unique and promising figure of the new Cuban school" when the composer was nineteen (Carpenter 1946, 336). At twenty-eight years of age, Orbón's Tres versiones sinfónicas (1953) won an award from a jury that consisted of Kleiber, Adolfo [End Page 150] Salazar, Varèse, and Villa-Lobos. Orbón (1925-91) was the musical prodigy and genius of the Orígenes generation that also published a Cuban literary m…
Rap's Diasporic Dialogues
Cultural Residues. Chile in Transition
Canon a la Cañona
A Resonant Rum for the Ears
Hannah Arendt
“Remorse is for children.”—Eichmann“I cannot look at any more maps. The names of cities reek of burnt flesh.”—Elias Canetti“Genocide is the absolute integration. ... Auschwitz confirmed the idea of p
Mpambu Nzila
The article draws on the Kongo term mpambu nzila of crossroads, that equally signifies altar, to discuss the paintings and drawings of Cuban-born artist José Bedia. He is a practitioner of Palo Briyumba, a syncretic Afro-Cuban religion that combines Kongo religious beliefs, Regla de Ocha, Spiritism, and Catholicism. The article examines six works by the artist from 1984 to 1999 and how Bedia represents Palo in his art. Additionally, the centralit…
Teleology, Tempests, and Voicings of History
This epilogue chapter draws on metaphors of opera to offer a layered meditation on recurrent themes, teleologies, and tropes of identity, exceptionalism, and authenticity – stated, reworked, subverted, abandoned, and resurrected in Cuban literary culture from the end of the nineteenth century into the third decade of the twenty-first. Revisiting such figures as José Martí, Julián del Casal, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Lor…
Cuban History and Society (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Visual arts (3 obras) · Biology (2 obras)