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Julián del Casal - in memoriam, a Francisco Morán edition

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«La Habana Elegante. Segunda epoca. XV Anniversary (1998-2012). Julian del Casal (In Memoriam)» by prof. Francisco Morán offers a wide selection of memories, testimonies, and critical readings on Julian del Casal (Havana, 1863-1893), and of literary works inspired by his work and poetic figure.
Included are texts from classic authors such as: Rubén Darío, José Martí, Paul Verlaine, José Lezama Lima, Cintio Vitier, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Virgilio Piñera, Enrique J. Varona, Juan Marinello, etc.
This selection shows the impact of Casal on the generation of Cuban writers of the 90s, who took him as a point of reference to critically examine the Cuban literary tradition. Among other texts from those years are those by Antonio J. Ponte, Pedro Marqués de Armas and Víctor Fowler, essential when evaluating Casal’s critical reception and influence.
This volume also shows the intimate connection between graphics and print, and between popular and literary culture by reproducing the advertisements, as well as magazine covers, photographs, cartoons and drawings and bringing into light their mutual interdependency.
Besides contributing to Casal’s own iconography – previously unpublished photos are included– the volume features a complete reproduction of the issue of La Habana Elegante from October 29, 1893, a tribute to Casal only a few days after his death.
Through critical readings of Casal’s works written when he was still alive, and then throughout the twentieth century, the author of Nieve – whom Marinello considered one of the most representative Modernists of Hispano-America – scholars will find a unique critical archive, which invites to rethink, through Casal, the modernista canon, the relationship between literature and politics, modernismo-modernity, the autonomy of the art, decadentism in Hispano-America, the representations of eroticism and sexuality in Modernismo, the relation between high culture and popular culture, the construction and debates of identities (Cuban, Hispano-American).

Specialists, enthusiastic scholars, and professors dedicated to the teaching of nineteenth century literature and culture in Hispano-American will want to have this edition for its value as an archive and a critical source and one of knowledge about the time. Along with the anthologies of Juana Borrero and Bonifacio Byrne, also compiled by Morán, and published by Stockcero, the volume dedicated to Casal expands still more the possibilities of re-evaluating Cuban Modernismo – and even Hispano-American Modernism – facilitating new lines of investigation that seek to extend and to complicate the relationship between the most canonical figures and geographical areas of Modernismo and those that are still considered «peripheral.»

Julián del Casal - (in memoriam)
Francisco Morán (editor)
ISBN 978-1-934768-53-2– JUNE 2012
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012941255
242 Pages - In Spanish – Full Color - 8.5" x 11"
Printed edition: $125.00.-
Evaluation copy: $81.25.-
Online access: $9.90.-