Papers by Anke Birkenmaier
Choice Reviews Online, 2004
... Iberian Peninsula, have felt the impact of the fiction and the poetry of such contemporary La... more ... Iberian Peninsula, have felt the impact of the fiction and the poetry of such contemporary Latin American writers as Borges, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez. ... of the text deals with the cultural and gender dynamic between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the television program/Love Lucy. ...
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2009
This paper argues that Leonardo Padura’s historical novel El hombre que amaba a los perros presen... more This paper argues that Leonardo Padura’s historical novel El hombre que amaba a los perros presents a continuation of sorts of the detective genre. In emphasing an inverted order of time and a witness’s investigation into the past of Trotski’s assassin, Padura construes a logic of defeat both for the witnesses and the actors of world history. The witness turned writer, the politician, and his assassin become victims of manipulative states, and the “new” historical novel, instead of capturing the aftermath of great historical events, is relegated to documenting the failure to adjust of the individual subject.
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2012
Havana, the twenty-first-century city that is home to over two million people and has captured th... more Havana, the twenty-first-century city that is home to over two million people and has captured the imagination of countless others, seems to stand at the brink of a new era. The impulse to read a city of rich and varied physical spaces from a temporal perspective is perhaps inevitable in the once utopian context of the Cuban Revolution, where history—as a past to be undone and a future to be built—weighs heavily. It is certainly through its relationship to time that many of the contributions in this edited volume read Havana; and in doing so they prise open what José Quiroga has called a palimpsestic city, one whose di√erent temporal, structural, and social layers allow one city to live as many. Havana’s architecture corresponds broadly to the three political orders that have governed Cuba: the Spanish colonial order, from the city’s founding in the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth; the Republican period of 1902–1958, a relatively short period but responsible for most ...
Cultural Mappings after 1989, 2011
Lateinamerika in der historischen Imagination des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem vollständigen Manuskript von Oswald Spenglers "Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel" (1897)., 2011
Lateinamerika in der historischen Imagination des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem vollständigen Manuskript von Oswald Spenglers "Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel" (1897)., 2011
... thanks go to Pedro Valero Puente for crafting and researching the glossary, as well as to Bil... more ... thanks go to Pedro Valero Puente for crafting and researching the glossary, as well as to Bill Nelson for the map of Havana. ... were published originally in Spanish, and we gratefully acknowledge the authors' permission to translate and publish them here: Emma Álvarez-Tabío ...
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
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