A seminar lecture by María Hernández Ojeda on the ideological evolution and literary output of the Cuban-Canarian poet and novelist Nivaria Tejera (1929-2016), whose poetic oeuvre was distinctively marked by her struggle against the abuse of power. Her texts reflect the political evolution of a writer who lived under three dictatorships and a fifty-year exile in the city of Paris. Tejera’s compulsion to write first became manifest during the Spanish Civil War and peaked with her denunciation of the Castro government, for which she worked as cultural attaché until 1965. Prof. Ojeda’s lecture will delve into Nivaria Tejera’s political evolution, as reflected particularly in her prose, through an analysis of four texts: El barranco, Sonámbulo del sol, Huir la espiral and Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución.
This seminar is presented in celebration of Women’s History Month. Prof. Hernández Ojeda will be introduced by Mayra McCarthy, director of the CCCNY Theater Program, who will also moderate a Q&A with the audience following the lecture.
This literary presentation is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
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María Hernández-Ojeda
teaches at the Department of RomanceLanguages
at Hunter College and has written extensively
on (pen)insular and transatlantic literature,
exploring the cultural and literary relationship
between the Canary Islands and Latin America.
She is considered the foremost authority
on the work of Nivaria Tejera.
This event is co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes
And Instituto Canarias-América at Hunter College
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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