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Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction
Missing Pictures and Imagining Loss and Nostalgia
Series: - Cross/Cultures, Volume: 205
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Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction offers new readings of Cuban-American novels and autobiographies, demonstrating that a focus on photographs (alluded to, analyzed, and/or obsessively recurrent in the narrative discourse) provides fresh insights into these texts. The study introduces the concept of photographic ekphrasis as a reading tool for diasporic literature and argues that visual images are important components of narratives about dislocation, nostalgia, and transcultural experience. Authors treated in depth include Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Oscar Hijuelos, Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, Achy Obejas, and Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Missing Pictures offers an original perspective on Cuban-American literature and contributes to the scholarship on ekphrasis and on the interactions between photography and narrative.
Louisa Söllner (PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2012) teaches at Eichstätt University. She has published articles on Cuban-American literature and art. Her research investigates the relationship between visual media and writing.
All interested in Cuban-American literature and in the interaction between visual media and writing, scholars of diaspora, of photography theory, and of ekphrasis.