Transculturación in Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces
- Up to now, the novel El siglo de las luces has most often been interpreted from a political perspective in the context of the Cuban revolution – which seems justified by the fact that Carpentier started writing it when Fidel Castro was already engaged in a guerrilla war against the dictator Batista. However, the novel also contains an important description of the birth of a Cuban identity on the verge of the 19th century. In this essay I try to show that this identity is a transcultural one and that Carpentier conceived it in terms that owe much to the ideas of Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
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| Author: | Thomas StauderGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-759423 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/75942 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8253-6108-2OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Transmediality and transculturality |
| Publisher: | Winter |
| Place of publication: | Heidelberg |
| Editor: | Nadja Gernalzick, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez |
| Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2020/05/01 |
| Tag: | Carpentier, Alejo; Ortiz, Fernando Transculturality Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar; El siglo de las luces; Transculturación |
| First Page: | 123 |
| Last Page: | 140 |
| Note: | Ursprünglich als Vortrag gehalten unter dem Titel „The Difficulty of Exporting a Revolution to the Caribbean: Alejo Carpentier, El siglo de las luces“ auf der Tagung des Franklin College „The Caribbean Unbound III“, Lugano 29. - 31. 3. 2007 (Organisator Robert McCormick); für diese Aufsatzfassung dann nochmals inhaltlich überarbeitet. |
| Series: | American Studies ; 233 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Romanistik | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Romanistik / Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft Französisch / Italienisch | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 86 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen / 860 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
