William Luis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1106984 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Luis |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Luis |
| ASSINATURA | LUIS W |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán
This essay examines Roberto Fernández Retamar's groundbreaking Calibán (1971) and his revision "Calibán revisitado" (1986), within their historical, political, and literary contexts. A few months before the publication of Calibán, the arrest of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla produced dissention among European and Latin American intellectual supporters of Cuba's revolution. Castro's condemnation of "bourgeois intellectuals" became the basis of Fernánd…
Las Vanguardias Literarias en el Caribe
Exhuming Lunes de Revolucion
THE HISTORY OF SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE IS BEST REPRESENTED BY ITS literary magazines. 1 Cuban literature is a case in point. The lack of publishing houses in Cuba before 1959 allowed magazines to become an essential vehicle for disseminating literary currents during their publication period. Writers used this accessible and timely medium to identify with literary and political trends and promote their own ideas. It was no accident, for exampl…
Culture and Customs of Cuba
Cuba continues to loom large in U.S. consciousness and politics.Culture and Customs of Cubais a much-needed resource to give students and other readers an in-depth view of our important island neighbor. Luis, of Cuban descent, provides detailed, clear insight into Cuban culture in its historical context. Religion, customs, economy, media, performing and creative arts, and cinema are some of the many topics discussed. Included in this discussion a…
A Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez's How the GarcÍa Girls Lost Their Accents
The displacement of Caribbean people from their islands to the United States, for political or economic reasons, has produced a tension between the culture of the country of origin and that of the adopted homeland, one representing the past and the other the future of the immigrant. As time passes, for the immigrant, the rupture with the past, strongest in political exiles, is transformed into a desire to recover a lost moment in time. But the pa…
Dance between Two Cultures
Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representativ…
Dance between Two Cultures
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond …
Literary Bondage
Order and Disorder in Caribbean Thought and Literature
From New York to the World
Tato Laviera is a prolific poet. In a relatively short period he has published four books and is finishing a fifth, and this accomplishment makes him one of the more active writers of his generation. Tato first revealed his poetic talents with La Carreta Made a U-Turn, a rewriting of sorts of Rene' Marques's well-known play La Carreta. His poem Jesu's Papote, from Enclave, confirmed his talents. The poem has already found a place among the celebr…
Literary Bondage
Literary Bondage
Literary Bondage
In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking why this literary genre has remained a viable means of expression. Applying Foucault's theory of counter-discourse to a vast body of antislaver…
The Politics of Memory and Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Run Away Slave
Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Run Away Slave (1966), published after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, is of historical importance. It covers the periods during and after slavery and describes the life of Esteban Montejo, a 105 year old runaway slave who remembers his past with exceptional clarity. Montejo's recollections are illuminating and demystifying, often challenging accepted notions of Cuban history. Barnet, a Cuban ethnologis…
Voices from under
Voices from under
Literary Bondage
Dance between Two Cultures
Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representativ…
A Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez's How the GarcÍa Girls Lost Their Accents
The displacement of Caribbean people from their islands to the United States, for political or economic reasons, has produced a tension between the culture of the country of origin and that of the adopted homeland, one representing the past and the other the future of the immigrant. As time passes, for the immigrant, the rupture with the past, strongest in political exiles, is transformed into a desire to recover a lost moment in time. But the pa…
Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán
This essay examines Roberto Fernández Retamar's groundbreaking Calibán (1971) and his revision "Calibán revisitado" (1986), within their historical, political, and literary contexts. A few months before the publication of Calibán, the arrest of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla produced dissention among European and Latin American intellectual supporters of Cuba's revolution. Castro's condemnation of "bourgeois intellectuals" became the basis of Fernánd…
Voices from under
Voices from under
The Politics of Memory and Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Run Away Slave
Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Run Away Slave (1966), published after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, is of historical importance. It covers the periods during and after slavery and describes the life of Esteban Montejo, a 105 year old runaway slave who remembers his past with exceptional clarity. Montejo's recollections are illuminating and demystifying, often challenging accepted notions of Cuban history. Barnet, a Cuban ethnologis…
Literary Bondage
In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking why this literary genre has remained a viable means of expression. Applying Foucault's theory of counter-discourse to a vast body of antislaver…
Literary Bondage
Literary Bondage
Order and Disorder in Caribbean Thought and Literature
From New York to the World
Tato Laviera is a prolific poet. In a relatively short period he has published four books and is finishing a fifth, and this accomplishment makes him one of the more active writers of his generation. Tato first revealed his poetic talents with La Carreta Made a U-Turn, a rewriting of sorts of Rene' Marques's well-known play La Carreta. His poem Jesu's Papote, from Enclave, confirmed his talents. The poem has already found a place among the celebr…
Literary Bondage
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond …
Dance between Two Cultures
Dance between Two Cultures
Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representativ…
Culture and Customs of Cuba
Cuba continues to loom large in U.S. consciousness and politics.Culture and Customs of Cubais a much-needed resource to give students and other readers an in-depth view of our important island neighbor. Luis, of Cuban descent, provides detailed, clear insight into Cuban culture in its historical context. Religion, customs, economy, media, performing and creative arts, and cinema are some of the many topics discussed. Included in this discussion a…
A Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez's How the GarcÍa Girls Lost Their Accents
The displacement of Caribbean people from their islands to the United States, for political or economic reasons, has produced a tension between the culture of the country of origin and that of the adopted homeland, one representing the past and the other the future of the immigrant. As time passes, for the immigrant, the rupture with the past, strongest in political exiles, is transformed into a desire to recover a lost moment in time. But the pa…
Exhuming Lunes de Revolucion
THE HISTORY OF SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE IS BEST REPRESENTED BY ITS literary magazines. 1 Cuban literature is a case in point. The lack of publishing houses in Cuba before 1959 allowed magazines to become an essential vehicle for disseminating literary currents during their publication period. Writers used this accessible and timely medium to identify with literary and political trends and promote their own ideas. It was no accident, for exampl…
Las Vanguardias Literarias en el Caribe
Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán
This essay examines Roberto Fernández Retamar's groundbreaking Calibán (1971) and his revision "Calibán revisitado" (1986), within their historical, political, and literary contexts. A few months before the publication of Calibán, the arrest of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla produced dissention among European and Latin American intellectual supporters of Cuba's revolution. Castro's condemnation of "bourgeois intellectuals" became the basis of Fernánd…
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