Cuba And The Tempest Literature And Cinema In The Time Of Diaspora Eduardo Gonzalez by Eduardo Gonzalez 9780807830154, 0807830151 instant download after payment.

Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls ''Romantic authorship,'' a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonzalez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonzalez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodovar. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonz§lez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.