Magdalena López – författare

Estados Unidos resulta un tema controversial que implica la construcción y manipulación de imaginarios comúnmente plagados de prejuicios, pero también de divergencias e incongruencias. Este libro explora los mecanismos generativos de representación mediante los cuales intelectuales dominicanos y cubanos se reposicionaron a lo largo del siglo XX frente a una alteridad estadounidense imaginada, bien desde la ciudad letrada, o bien desde su periferia. El tema de Estados Unidos llama a una autoafirmación de identidad y de diferencia que gravita sobre la disparidad de poder entre ambas Américas. El espacio de debate sobre Estados Unidos pocas veces supuso un diálogo con aquel país. La mirada periférica sobre ‘el vecino del Norte’ ha implicado mucho más la necesidad de articular un discurso sobre la propia diferencialidad o similitud respecto a aquél, que un intento por profundizar en una caracterización de la nación norteamericana, la cual es percibida a menudo como un ‘otro’.Este ensayo no pretende limitarse a la elaboración de un inventario del antiimperialismo o de su reverso en ambas naciones caribeñas. Su intención es la de un esfuerzo crítico para entender los procesos de subalternidad. Pensar en el proceso por el cual el significante metropolitano funciona en República Dominicana y Cuba como movilizador o detonante para desplegar múltiples discursos, emparentaría este libro con una tradición de trabajo crítico sobre la producción cultural originada desde la periferia para indagar la propia condición colonial. Sin embargo, la intención aquí es concentrarnos en el mecanismo discursivamente productivo por el cual ambas islas echan mano del referente estadounidense para permitir posicionamientos y desplazamientos más allá de una referencialidad literal.~The United States is a controversial issue that implies the construction and manipulation of imaginaries commonly plagued by prejudices, but also by divergences and inconsistencies. This book explores the creative mechanisms of representation through which Dominican and Cuban intellectuals repositioned themselves throughout the 20th century in front of an imagined American otherness, either from the literate city or from its periphery. The issue of the United States calls for a self-affirmation of identity and difference that weighs on the disparity of power between the two Americas. The space for debate on the United States rarely meant a dialogue with that country. The peripheral look at 'the neighbor from the North' has implied much more the need to articulate a discourse on one's own difference or similarity in relation to it, than an attempt to deepen a characterization of the North American nation, which is often perceived as ‘other'.This essay does not intend to limit itself to the elaboration of an inventory of anti-imperialism or its opposite in these Caribbean nations. Its intention is that of a critical effort to understand the processes of subalternity. Thinking about the process by which the metropolitan signifier functions in the Dominican Republic and Cuba as a mobilizer or trigger to deploy multiple discourses, would make this book akin to a tradition of critical work on cultural production originating from the periphery to investigate the colonial condition itself. However, the intention here is to focus on the discursively productive mechanism by which both islands make use of the American referent to allow positioning and displacements beyond a literal referentiality.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience. Contributors from an international range of different disciplinary perspectives look at how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in order to analyse the discourses and cultural practices through which a societal consensus for the pursuit of neoliberal politics may be established, defended and contested.

It offers an update on the state of Hispanic Caribbean studies through the discussion of diverse theoretical perspectives around notions of affect, archipelagic thinking, deterritoriality, and queer experiences and subjectivities.

It offers an update on the state of Hispanic Caribbean studies through the discussion of diverse theoretical perspectives around notions of affect, archipelagic thinking, deterritoriality, and queer experiences and subjectivities.