An in-depth presentation by literary critic Isabel Alvarez Borland on Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), one the most enigmatic and widely recognized Cuban writers of the 20th century, through an analysis of a posthumous novel, Mapa dibujado por un espía / Map Drawn by a Spy. Published in 2013, the novel is a recollection of Cabrera Infante’s unforeseen four-month sojourn in Cuba in 1965, where he traveled to attend his mother’s funeral, but then was not allowed by the government to leave the island.
With an introduction by Lourdes Gil, director of the CCCNY Literature Program, who will also moderate the Q&A following the presentation.
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. The presentation will be in Spanish.
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General Admission: FREE
Isabel Alvarez Borland is Distinguished Professor Emerita of
Arts and Humanities in the Department of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Her books include Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona (1999) and Discontinuidad y ruptura en Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1982). She is also co-editor of Negotiating Identities in Cuban American Art and Literature (2009) and Identity, Memory, and Diaspora (2008). She is currently Associate Editor of Hispania and was Co-Director of the 2006 NEH Seminar for College Teachers: Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture. She has published essays on Cuban and Latin American Literature in scholarly journals such as Hispanic Review, MLN, and Revista Iberoamericana.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
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