Overview

This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood. Both the concept of transculturation and its instrumentalization to tame conflict within nationalist projects are problematic. By uncovering and examining the contradictions between the fluid character of identities in the Cuban context of the first half of the twentieth century and nationalist discourses, within both the Catalanist community of Havana and Cuban society, this book joins wider debates about identities. 

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Author:   Yairen Jerez Columbié
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030730390

ISBN 10:   3030730395
Pages:   107
Publication Date:   27 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS 1.      Chapter 1/Introduction The counterpoints of transculturation   2.      Chapter 2 The Catalan-Cuban intellectuals of La Nova Catalunya 2.1  Chapter 2 The nucleus of Catalanism in the Americas 2.2  Chapter 2 The first decades of La Nova Catalunya (1908–1932) 2.3  Chapter 2 The confluence of old and new Catalan-Cubans in the revival of La Nova Catalunya (1942–1959)   3.      Chapter 3 Josep Conangla’s Americanist Catalanism 3.1 Chapter 3 An Americanist Catalanism 3.2 Chapter 3 Els altres sentits, a Caribbean version   4.      Chapter 4 Regino Boti’s poetics and the construction of identities in Guantanamo 4.1 Chapter 4 Guantanamero poetics 4.2 Chapter 4 Guantanamero politics   5.      Chapter 5 A rereading of Fernando Ortiz’s counterpoints. 5.1 Chapter 5 Ortiz, the Catalan-Cuban intellectual 5.2 Chapter 5 Transculturation and nationalism, ties and tensions   6.      Conclusion/Chapter 6 In praise of contrapuntal harmonies

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Yairen Jerez Columbié investigates cultural exchange, postcolonial identities and ecologies, and the sociohistorical dimensions of environmental challenges. She is an Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Intercultural Communication at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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