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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Christina M. GarcÃa, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
Description: Christina M. GarcÃa’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of Florida, 2024), looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge traditional assumptions about the body. GarcÃa examines how writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century - specifically, how these works interact with ecologies of the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies. To answer these questions, GarcÃa uses the lenses of new materialism, critical race studies, critical animal studies, queer studies, and poststructuralism and identifies historical...