Eric Morales-Franceschini
Biographic Data
| ID | 180341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Morales-Franceschini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales-Franceschini |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES-FRANCESCHINI E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
Whether emplotted as epic or as tragedy, the tales told about a nation's revolutionary past do not tend to elicit laughter as much as awe and solemnity. This is the case with Cuba's national epic, the story of its nineteenth-century wars for independence (1868-98)-the story of Cuba Libre. This essay analyzes how the animated cartoon shorts and film series Elpidio Valdés (1974-2003) comically inflects the story of Cuba Libre with ridiculing laught…
Tropics of abjection: Figures of violence and the Afro-Caribbean semiotic
This article teases out elective affinities between Julia Kristeva's theorization of the abject and certain (Afro-)Caribbean writers' figurations of racialized alterity and violence in the (post)colony. It argues that whereas Kristeva relies on the tropes of refuse and the corpse to classify the volatile experience she calls abjection, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant and others invoke tropes of bareness and monstrosity (i.e. zombies, cannibals) to…
Tropics of abjection: Figures of violence and the Afro-Caribbean semiotic
This article teases out elective affinities between Julia Kristeva's theorization of the abject and certain (Afro-)Caribbean writers' figurations of racialized alterity and violence in the (post)colony. It argues that whereas Kristeva relies on the tropes of refuse and the corpse to classify the volatile experience she calls abjection, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant and others invoke tropes of bareness and monstrosity (i.e. zombies, cannibals) to…
Tropics of abjection: Figures of violence and the Afro-Caribbean semiotic
This article teases out elective affinities between Julia Kristeva's theorization of the abject and certain (Afro-)Caribbean writers' figurations of racialized alterity and violence in the (post)colony. It argues that whereas Kristeva relies on the tropes of refuse and the corpse to classify the volatile experience she calls abjection, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant and others invoke tropes of bareness and monstrosity (i.e. zombies, cannibals) to…
Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
Whether emplotted as epic or as tragedy, the tales told about a nation's revolutionary past do not tend to elicit laughter as much as awe and solemnity. This is the case with Cuba's national epic, the story of its nineteenth-century wars for independence (1868-98)-the story of Cuba Libre. This essay analyzes how the animated cartoon shorts and film series Elpidio Valdés (1974-2003) comically inflects the story of Cuba Libre with ridiculing laught…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Afro-Caribbean (1 works) · Alterity (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works)