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Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos is a collection of critical essays published by the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature [Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana], edited by Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.Description: In the words of the editor, this critical anthology “spoils the disciplinary sharpness or moral correctness of many well-pondered narratives barely dedicated to presenting an inventory of the identity particularities of the islands.” What guides the exploration of a possible Caribbean space here is not the “mainstream tendency” but rather unique, anomalous, and impossible subjectivities, as well as abject, unmotivated, and unbelievable actions. The works’ critical register spans from the health deliria of Dr. Ashley in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the counter-Dantesque orgies of José Lezama Lima.

 

The contributors are Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Ana Serra, Ivette Rodríguez-Santana, Horacio Legrás, Marilyn Grace Miller, Néstor E. Rodríguez, Francisco Morán, Eduardo González, Laura Maccioni, and Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.

via New Book: Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia’s “Caribe abierto” | Repeating Islands.