Gerard Aching
Biographic Data
| ID | 840429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard Aching |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Aching |
| SIGNATURE | ACHING G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
In Legitimate Defense
In response to demands from French Communist Party officials for surrealists to define the nature of their relationship to communism, André Breton published Legitimate Defense (1926), a pamphlet in which he described surrealism’s ideological and political stance and identified some of the principal debates and challenges that the group faced in Europe. What lie at stake in the surrealists’ effort to encompass metaphysical and dialectical methods …
Disciplines and Their Discomforts
Freedom from Liberation
My World … In Fragments
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
No Need for an Apology
In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon intimates to the reader that including his psychiatric notes in the book might be considered "out of place or untimely" for the cause of political decolonization that he advocates in it. This essay examines the theoretical implications of Fanon's caveat and argues that he postpones unraveling the contradictions between approaching colonial subjects from both a political theory of decolonization and psych…
The Slave's Work
In phenomenology of spirit (1807), G. W. F. Hegel employs the figures of the “lord” and “bondsman” to explain the struggle between an independent and a dependent self-consciousness in the aftermath of what he calls the “trial by death” or “life-and-death struggle.” Commonly cited today as the “master-slave dialectic,” this complex, foundational theory of the subject relies on metaphors that compel us to ask whether consciousness can be represente…
Carnival time versus modern social life
Closely examining the dance form of winin', ubiquitous in Trinidad and Tobago's carnival, this essay argues for the inextricability of carnival time and contemporary social life. In contrast to the notion that carnival constitutes interruptions or postponements of projects of modernity and, especially, that it invokes a temporality and social space where ideologies may be blissfully suspended, this study illustrates how this dance form articulate…
Masking and Power
book, literary scholar Gerard Aching examines visual and verbal masking in Caribbean carnivals and other forms of popular culture, principally through readings of novels by three major writers: Earl Lovelace (Trinidad), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who was from Cuba but lived in London from the 1960s until his death in 2005. Aching states that his objective is to examine relationships between observers and maske…
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo
No Need for an Apology
In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon intimates to the reader that including his psychiatric notes in the book might be considered "out of place or untimely" for the cause of political decolonization that he advocates in it. This essay examines the theoretical implications of Fanon's caveat and argues that he postpones unraveling the contradictions between approaching colonial subjects from both a political theory of decolonization and psych…
Carnival time versus modern social life
Closely examining the dance form of winin', ubiquitous in Trinidad and Tobago's carnival, this essay argues for the inextricability of carnival time and contemporary social life. In contrast to the notion that carnival constitutes interruptions or postponements of projects of modernity and, especially, that it invokes a temporality and social space where ideologies may be blissfully suspended, this study illustrates how this dance form articulate…
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo
Masking and Power
book, literary scholar Gerard Aching examines visual and verbal masking in Caribbean carnivals and other forms of popular culture, principally through readings of novels by three major writers: Earl Lovelace (Trinidad), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who was from Cuba but lived in London from the 1960s until his death in 2005. Aching states that his objective is to examine relationships between observers and maske…
Carnival time versus modern social life
Closely examining the dance form of winin', ubiquitous in Trinidad and Tobago's carnival, this essay argues for the inextricability of carnival time and contemporary social life. In contrast to the notion that carnival constitutes interruptions or postponements of projects of modernity and, especially, that it invokes a temporality and social space where ideologies may be blissfully suspended, this study illustrates how this dance form articulate…
The Slave's Work
In phenomenology of spirit (1807), G. W. F. Hegel employs the figures of the “lord” and “bondsman” to explain the struggle between an independent and a dependent self-consciousness in the aftermath of what he calls the “trial by death” or “life-and-death struggle.” Commonly cited today as the “master-slave dialectic,” this complex, foundational theory of the subject relies on metaphors that compel us to ask whether consciousness can be represente…
My World … In Fragments
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
No Need for an Apology
In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon intimates to the reader that including his psychiatric notes in the book might be considered "out of place or untimely" for the cause of political decolonization that he advocates in it. This essay examines the theoretical implications of Fanon's caveat and argues that he postpones unraveling the contradictions between approaching colonial subjects from both a political theory of decolonization and psych…
Freedom from Liberation
Disciplines and Their Discomforts
In Legitimate Defense
In response to demands from French Communist Party officials for surrealists to define the nature of their relationship to communism, André Breton published Legitimate Defense (1926), a pamphlet in which he described surrealism’s ideological and political stance and identified some of the principal debates and challenges that the group faced in Europe. What lie at stake in the surrealists’ effort to encompass metaphysical and dialectical methods …
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works)