Translating Cuba: diasporic writing between moving cultures and moving media
- This article discusses the interrelation between transculturality and transmediality with an emphasis on processes of translation. It focuses on two examples of transcultural and transmedial writing taken from contemporary Cuban literature in Paris: Miguel Sales's recontextualization of Cuban popular music in Paris and William Navarrete's ekphrastic reinscription of his island into the realm of French romantic painting. The case studies are significant in this context because they show how cultural borders are simultaneously set and transgressed at medial crossings—between music and poetry, text, and image. Thus, cultural translations go hand in hand with medial transpositions that include forms of rewriting, recomposition, and revisualization. The connection between moving cultures and moving media also points to the question of “travelling memory” in diaspora.
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| Author: | Andrea Gremels |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-403294 |
| URL: | http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/26947 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.26947 |
| ISSN: | 2000-4214 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Aesthetics & Culture |
| Place of publication: | Stockholm |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/04/01 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2015/04/01 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2016/06/02 |
| Tag: | Cuban literature in Paris; cultural translation; diasporic writing; moving cultures and moving media; transcultural memory; transculturality and transmediality |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 26947 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| Note: | ©2015 A. Gremels. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 423547356 |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 86 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen / 860 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
