{"title":"Mapping Colonial Havana: La Condesa de Merlin’s Voyage of Return","authors":"Adriana Méndez Ródenas","doi":"10.16993/karib.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.73","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197108,"journal":{"name":"Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115906069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Habana caribeña en dos cuentos precursores de Antonio Benítez Rojo","authors":"Haydée Arango","doi":"10.16993/karib.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.68","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197108,"journal":{"name":"Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125813232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the Testimonial Genre and Casa de las Américas’ Literary Award (1970–2017)","authors":"Anna Forné","doi":"10.16993/karib.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.69","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197108,"journal":{"name":"Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129999930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale of Two Tragedies: Forgetting and Remembering Kingston (1907) and Port-au-Prince (2010)","authors":"M. Smith","doi":"10.16993/KARIB.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/KARIB.50","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers two catastrophic earthquakes that took place in Kingston, Jamaica in 1907 and Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010. The disasters remain central to the collective memory of each place yet are often not integrated in their national narratives. The article reflects on the relationship between natural disaster and memory in the Caribbean through these two examples. It merges original archival research with photography and personal experience.","PeriodicalId":197108,"journal":{"name":"Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115802500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curating in Cuba: From Advertisement Websites to Night Spaces","authors":"Stephanie Noach","doi":"10.16993/KARIB.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/KARIB.41","url":null,"abstract":"“Curating in Cuba: from Advertisement Websites to Night Spaces” proposes that newly established socio-commercial spaces in Cuba are more appropriate to exhibit projects of contemporary art than traditional state-owned galleries and museums. It analyses two exhibitions which took place at heterogeneous sites — Handmade Twitting (Revolico, Twelfth Havana Biennial, 2015) and Portate Bien. De lo erotico y de lo heroico: sexo y resistencia cultural (Fabrica de Arte Cubano, 2016)—by tracing how they responded to current changes in Cuba’s economic and sociopolitical landscape, and by exposing how they rethink and upset conventional ways of exhibition making. Handmade Twitting was a virtual exhibition that explored how historically opposing economic and value systems are increasingly merging in contemporary Cuba. It took place at the online auction and shopping website Revolico and was made available to the Cuban audience through the distribution of the paquete semanal: a selection of digital information distributed on Cuba’s black market. Portate bien was a nocturnal exhibition about the revolutionary potentials of sexuality which was held at the Fabrica de Arte Cubano: a fusion of a discotheque, a commercial gallery and an art space.","PeriodicalId":197108,"journal":{"name":"Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117205772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}