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Vicky Unruh<\/strong>, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas
\n“Beyond Immortality: The Cemetery in Contemporary Cuban Film and Fiction”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 3:30pm
\nAmerican Geographical Society Library (UWM Libraries, Third floor)<\/p>\n

The Necr\u00f3polis Cristobal Col\u00f3n in Havana, one of the largest in the Western Hemisphere, is a popular tourist stop for visitors to Cuba. The site of Fidel Castro\u2019s first memorable public appearance in 1951, the Col\u00f3n entrance also witnessed his first use of the word \u201csocialism\u201d in 1961 to describe the Cuban Revolution. Decades of oratory have reinforced the association with state authority. This talk explores how Post-Soviet Cuban fiction and film represent the cemetery as a \u201cpracticed place,\u201d in Michel de Certeau\u2019s terms, for recasting residual, if threadbare revolutionary ideals. The talk examines the cemetery as an imagined ground zero of confrontation with a superannuated revolutionary state and the rich terrain it offers for disassembling the all-encompassing national community that modern cemeteries ostensibly embody and for generating smaller-scale, if tentative, models for community and affiliation.<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Film Studies Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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