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Introduction
The Introduction recounts the author’s motivation to study Cuban music in diaspora, after her journey from Cuba to New York, Mexico, and Miami amid...
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Cubanidad “in-between”: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene (TCAMS)
The chapter examines the negotiation of narratives of identity and practices of music production of Cuban singers, songwriters and academically...
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Situating the Digital in Latin American Technopoetics
In this chapter, we explore definitions and typologies of digital poetry, drawing from studies on the topic from Anglophone and Latin American...
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Televised Political Satire and the Democratic Transition in Mexico
In specific contexts both global changes and internal forces tend to push for and shape the creation of television satire. In different parts of the...
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Legal Protection of the Freedom of Expression in Mexico During the Alternation: Progress with No Results
This chapter reviews the conditions of protection of freedom of expression in the context of two decades of partisan alternation in Mexico. In...
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Press and Civil Society: Alliance and Mistrust in Mexican Transition
Journalism and civil society are two fundamental actors in processes of democratic transition. Twenty years after the first alternation of federal...
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The Salinas Years, 1988–1994: Watershed in the Opening of Mexico’s Print Media
The six-year presidential term (sexenio) of Carlos Salinas de Gortari is considered a watershed, as it constituted the first fully neoliberal Mexican...
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“The Most Honourable Brogad”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaica’s Prime Minister as Hero, Sex Symbol and Villain on Social Media
This chapter examines the role of the public’s language use in giving and taking power away from political representatives. Within Critical Discourse...
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“He Was Oppressed by a Sense of Loss”: Stylistic Constructions of the Tragic in A House for Mr Biswas
This chapter analyses various stylistic features which contribute to the discursive construction of the tragic in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr...
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Towards a Discursive History of the Caribbean as a History of Genres
The investigation of text formats beyond literary genres has so far been the exception in research literature on World Englishes and English-related...
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Styles and Stylistic Change in Creole Languages: Formal Language in the Eastern Maroon Creole
Sociolinguistic research on Creoles traditionally investigates the interaction between a Creole and a standardized language using quantitative...
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Final Discussions
This chapter presents the conclusions and a discussion on the debates developed in the book. In this regard, the chapter discusses the importance of...
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Introduction
In her acclaimed song Alma Mía, Mexican composer María Grever says: “Si yo encontrara un alma como la miìa, cuaìntas cosas secretas le contariìa. Un...
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Aesthetics of Abduction and Fragmentation
This fourth chapter of critical aesthetics discusses the political and economic dimensions of artisanal production in Santa Clara del Cobre. Market...
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Forge: Hearth and Home
Readers enter the household and workshop of Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas, now led by his sons since his death in 2014. The family forge is the locus...
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Field of Corn
“Field of corn” enters media res into the village of Santa Clara del Cobre shortly after the death of the village elder, patriarch, and renowned...
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Person and Place: The Life-World of Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas
Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas was a gran cuentista, a master storyteller with griot-like powers. His rhythmically pronounced, Michoacán accented...
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The Good Piece: An Aesthetics of Making
In Maestro Jesús’ workshop performances of making and the performance of made things are bound together by an ethos of crafting “goodness” rather...
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Aesthetics in Time and Space
Time and space are essential to rhythm. Time is coppersmithing’s medium and rhythm its duration. Time and rhythm can be seen in the artisan’s body,...
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Aesthetics of Memory and Use
Maestro Jesús’ desire to be a nonconformist was also a trait of his copper work. Yet, although his stylistic approach expanded Santa Clara’s...