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Cuban Special Period
dirty realism
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Foucault
heterotopian spaces
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Product details
- ISBN 9781666910032
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 157 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces, Lori Oxford conducts a series of close readings that expound on Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality in the spaces of the Special Period throughout the five works that make up his Ciclo Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003). Gutiérrez's settings oscillate between the utopian, the dystopian, and the heterotopian in unexpected fashion, often revealing his protagonists’ surprising affinity for the latter two. In her examination of Gutiérrez’s use of these interwoven -topian spaces, Oxford shows how the three spaces, although apparently contradictory, have managed to coexist in Cuba and demonstrates how they are all reflected in Gutiérrez’s fiction, often simultaneously, just as they exist in Cuba’s reality.
Lori Oxford is associate professor of Spanish and associate dean of the Brinson Honors College at Western Carolina University.
