The Intersections Between Cuban Studies and Latina Feminisms

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The organization of this panel follows Jorge J. Gracia’s call for a greater communication between Philosophy and Literature, particularly in regards of the challenges faced in the development of Latin American thought. Its objective is to analyze Gendered identities determined by exclusions that are enforced by cultural practices linked to the production of knowledge. It is for this reason that we understand gender as perhaps one of the most precarious category of analysis, both in the way in which it indicates identities and by how it affirms/confronts conventional knowledge. The essays gathered analyze the precariousness of gender in how its exclusions are challenged by emergent cultural practices and the production of historical and philosophical knowledge. We will address how gendered identities were configured and challenged by literary, historical and philosophical practices in the 20th and 21st centuries. The different essays included will show how through the analysis of different practices and locations we can reflect on new perspectives to understand the possibilities of more inclusionary gender practices both in Cuban Studies and Latina Feminisms in the United States.

Sub Track

• Gender and Feminist Studies

Session Organizer

• Adriana I Novoa, University of South Florida

Chair

• Adriana I Novoa, University of South Florida

Individual Presentations

• Examining Gender Difference in Leopoldo Zea’s Filosofía como Compromiso - Andrea J Pitts, Vanderbilt University

• El vasto Mare Atlanticum o algunas estrategias para desmantelar la neocolonización en la narrativa de Mylene Fernández Pintado - Mabel Cuesta, University of Houston

• La masculinización literaria como estrategia de validación autoral - Damaris Puñales-Alpizar, Case Western Reserve University

• The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí & Gender - Stephanie Rivera Berruz, William Paterson University

• Cuban Studies & Latina Feminisms, A Proposal - Adriana I Novoa, University of South Florida