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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marta Hernández SalvánPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.336kg ISBN: 9781438456706ISBN 10: 1438456700 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 02 January 2016 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Sovereignty of Violence 2. Violence and Melancholia in the Eighties and Nineties 3. Biopolitics and the Revival of Jose Lezama Lima in the Eighties and Nineties 4. Humanism, Irony, and the End of Literature Afterword Notes Works Cited IndexReviews"""Marta Hernandez Salvan tackles head on the complex nature of philosophical tendencies within the poetics of Cuban cultural production in the last few decades to offer magnificent and precise readings of lesser-known writings and films, as well as profound renderings of canonical texts. This is a remarkably rich book that will take multiple readings to give it justice."" - Jacqueline Loss, author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary" Marta Hernandez Salvan tackles head on the complex nature of philosophical tendencies within the poetics of Cuban cultural production in the last few decades to offer magnificent and precise readings of lesser-known writings and films, as well as profound renderings of canonical texts. This is a remarkably rich book that will take multiple readings to give it justice. - Jacqueline Loss, author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary Author InformationMarta Hernandez Salvan is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Riverside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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