Beyond Bodies, Images, and Texts: Re-visioning Cultural Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Bridging the gaps between performance studies, gender studies, and literary studies, these papers address the ways in which culture is transformed in the hands of artists and authors to reflect the changes experienced in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st century. Focusing on Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico, these papers bring to light different emergent interjections that seek to deviate the flow of traditional cultural and political trends in the Americas.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Rebeca L Hey-Colon, Harvard University

Chair

• Rebeca L Hey-Colon, Harvard University

Individual Presentations

• Vanishing Acts: Mexicanness and Frida Kahlo’s “Ethnic” Fashions - Alba F Aragón, Bridgewater State University

• "Por amor en el caserío:" Caribbeanizing "West Side Story" in the 21st Century - Rebeca L Hey-Colon, Harvard University

• Entre la palma y la caña: Reinaldo Arenas y su relectura de “lo cubano” en Fernando Ortiz - Monica Simal, Providence College

• Espacio, memoria y corporalidad: Metáforas políticas del teatro de Griselda Gambaro y su resignificación hoy - Maria Alessandra Woolson, University of Arizona