Par Kumaraswami
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Par Kumaraswami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Par |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumaraswami |
| SIGNATURE | KUMARASWAMI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that charact…
The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba
This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literat
The Havana Habit, written by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
One Day in December
Cuba's wild east
Literary culture in Cuba
Peripheral Visions? Literary Canon Formation in Revolutionary Cuba
Introduction
Los juegos de la Escritura o la (re) escritura de La Historia
El color de nuestro futuro
The cultural and political importance of the series of cultural debates that took place in Cuba in early 2007, known as the Encuentros, attracted significant attention both on and off the island, either as continuing proof of the repression of free cultural expression over nearly fifty years, and a further opportunity to reassess the relationship between political and cultural fields in an ever-changing Cuba. By tracing the principal positions es…
Cultural Policy and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Cuba
This article re-reads Fidel Castro's speech to Cuban artists and intellectuals at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (National Library) in June 1961. Despite extensive discussion of its famous extract, the speech has rarely been examined in depth. This article thus analyses the entire speech, situating it within its co-text and its context and examining its multiple functions, offering as it does an insight into the social and educational implica…
Writing between the margins
Cultural Policy, Literature and Readership in Revolutionary Cuba
This article presents a fresh perspective on cultural policy in revolutionary Cuba, focusing specifically on the centrality of dialogue with the general readership to the production, reception and regulation of literature. It first summarises the positions regarding revolutionary literature that have been asserted and essayed at various points along the sometimes chaotic trajectory of revolution in Cuba. It then examines reading-related policies …
Cultural Policy and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Cuba
This article re-reads Fidel Castro's speech to Cuban artists and intellectuals at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (National Library) in June 1961. Despite extensive discussion of its famous extract, the speech has rarely been examined in depth. This article thus analyses the entire speech, situating it within its co-text and its context and examining its multiple functions, offering as it does an insight into the social and educational implica…
El color de nuestro futuro
The cultural and political importance of the series of cultural debates that took place in Cuba in early 2007, known as the Encuentros, attracted significant attention both on and off the island, either as continuing proof of the repression of free cultural expression over nearly fifty years, and a further opportunity to reassess the relationship between political and cultural fields in an ever-changing Cuba. By tracing the principal positions es…
Cultural Policy, Literature and Readership in Revolutionary Cuba
This article presents a fresh perspective on cultural policy in revolutionary Cuba, focusing specifically on the centrality of dialogue with the general readership to the production, reception and regulation of literature. It first summarises the positions regarding revolutionary literature that have been asserted and essayed at various points along the sometimes chaotic trajectory of revolution in Cuba. It then examines reading-related policies …
Writing between the margins
Los juegos de la Escritura o la (re) escritura de La Historia
El color de nuestro futuro
The cultural and political importance of the series of cultural debates that took place in Cuba in early 2007, known as the Encuentros, attracted significant attention both on and off the island, either as continuing proof of the repression of free cultural expression over nearly fifty years, and a further opportunity to reassess the relationship between political and cultural fields in an ever-changing Cuba. By tracing the principal positions es…
Cultural Policy and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Cuba
This article re-reads Fidel Castro's speech to Cuban artists and intellectuals at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (National Library) in June 1961. Despite extensive discussion of its famous extract, the speech has rarely been examined in depth. This article thus analyses the entire speech, situating it within its co-text and its context and examining its multiple functions, offering as it does an insight into the social and educational implica…
Literary culture in Cuba
Peripheral Visions? Literary Canon Formation in Revolutionary Cuba
Introduction
Cuba's wild east
The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba
This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literat
The Havana Habit, written by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
One Day in December
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that charact…
Art (10 works) · Cuban History and Society (10 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Literature (5 works)