This reprise presentation resumes our series on foreign writers who have contributed to Cuba’s cultural patrimony inspired by their sojourns on the Island and/or deep friendships forged with key figures of Cuba’s literary and artistic circles. Spanish writer and philosopher María Zambrano, who regarded Cuba as her pre-natal homeland, is a pivotal figure in this regard, and her influence on Cuban intellectuals during her periodic stays on the Island between 1936 and 1953, and the impact of her friendship with the Cuban poet José Lezama Lima, cannot be understated.
Literary scholar Elena Palmero‘s dedication lecture at our 19th congreso anual España en Cuba: Un ir y venir, in 2020, highlights the Spanish philosopher’s ontological and spiritual bond with the Island. Following the streaming of her presentation, Palmero will expand on Zambrano’s defining conceptualization of poetry, exile, and a pre-natal homeland in a Q&A with the audience via Zoom, moderated by Manuel Rodríguez Ramos, director of our Literature Program.
This special literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
Please click on this link on the scheduled date and time:
https://youtu.be/GJU8hx8yOYM
Elena Palmero González is a Cuban essayist living
in Brazil since 1999, where she is a professor of
Latin American Literature at the Universidade Federal
do Rio de Janeiro. She has a PhD in Philology from
the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba, and did
post-doctoral work at the Paris IV-Sorbonne, at the
Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) and at
Yale University (the latter with a CAPES research
fellowship). She has published widely in Latin America,
Europe and Canada.
This event 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 and the New York State Legislature.
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