Abstract

HAUG MORALES, Susana. Dystopian Forms to Destroy and Rethink the Caribbean Motif in Two Cuban Fictions of the 21st Century. Recial [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.23, pp.192-204.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2718-658X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v14.n23.41702.

This paper proposes a reading of Caribbean literature, specifically 21st-century Cuban narratives, as living, open, ever-moving, multi-vectorial entities in constant relation and feedback with the world. Building upon the works of scholars such as Ottmar Ette, Edouard Glissant, Antonio Benítez Rojo, and Nancy Calomarde, we explore the matrices, dislocations, tropes, and literary representations of Cuba and the Caribbean in two recent dystopian fictions by Cuban authors Anisley Negrín and Jorge Enrique Lage. These narratives deliberately shift the epicenter of the trans-post-national narrative away from Havana, challenging the established canon and literary criticism of the island. They persistently question the binarisms, commonplaces, false transparency, and schizophrenia of the multifaceted and globally dispersed artifact that is Cuban culture today.

Keywords : 21 ^st; Century Cuban narrative; Generation Year Zero; Caribbean theory; Cuban literature; trans/post-national literature.

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