Marvelous realism in the Caribbean: a second look at Jacques Stephen Alexis and Alejo Carpentier

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-234
Author(s):  
Nicholas Michael Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Second Look ◽  
Jacques Stephen Alexis ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals “La fijeza”: the hope of the temporary progression through the image of the Caribbean location

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Ochoa Roa
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Poetic Image ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Beach Resort

 This is a text derivated from the presentation “La fijeza: tiempo y espacio insulares”, in the 38th Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, on June 4th, 2013 at Grenada Grand Beach Resort, Grand Anse, Grenada.Lezama Lima was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist considered as well as Alejo Carpentier, one of the greatest figures of the Caribbean island literature. His detailed knowledge of the baroque literature specially Góngora’s poetry, and also his necessity of fixing a Cuban identity, allowed him to propose a very innovative esthetic which goes beyond the disenchantment proper of the baroque. The verses of “La fijeza” are some examples of this vision. In this order of ideas, the purpose of this work in to present the analysis of some poems of “La fijeza” in order to explain the manner in which Lezama distances himself from the baroque disenchantment conception of the world and how, at the same time, he presents verses of hope, identity and universalism by means of presenting the poetic image of the Caribbean scenery and its spatio-temporal relationships in a way to explain a vision of the poetry as privileged way to re-create the world.  

Delusions in the Caribbean

1963 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
WALTER MISCHEL
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean

A Second Edition and a Second Look at Community Psychology

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 627-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Second Look

Taking a Second Look: Reflecting on LGBT Parents and Families

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Niolon
Keyword(s):  
Second Look
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