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Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal Home  Directory Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
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Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
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Associate Professor / Merrill College Provost |
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Humanities 1 528 |
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(831) 459-2701 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message |
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lourdes@ucsc.edu |
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Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory |
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FALL 2009: TBA |
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TEACHING AREAS:
-- LTSP 134H, Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture
-- LTSP 117, Literature of the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean
-- LTSP 134P, Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
-- LTSP 231A: Topics on Cuban Literature and Cultural Studies (Black Interventions in 20th Century Cuba (winter 2004); the 1960: the Literature and Culture of the Early Revolutionary Period (spring 2005); Cuba: the Literature and Culture of Late Socialism (fall 2006).
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Born and raised on the island of Cuba, I came to the United States in 1970. I received a Master`s degree in History (nineteenth century African and Caribbean histories) in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Latin American literature in 1984, from the University of California San Diego . I am an Associate Professor of Literature, and the Provost of Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz .
My broad area of specialization is twentieth-century Caribbean and Latin American literatures and cultural studies. Central to my research on Caribbean and Latin American writings and other forms of cultural expressions are issues of national, racial, cultural, and gender identity formation (and transformations) in an area broadly termed "Afroamérica." I am particularly interested in the symbolic and textual processes that condition the formation of these identities, and in the shifting functions of one category to another - for example, the "racialization" of local (or "regional") cultures, the "gendering" of national or ethnic identities; and the ethnicization of political contests.
The major unifying concern of most of my research and publications has been an on-going analysis of the complexities of the ideologeme known in Latin America as mestizaje . I am the author of Para una semiótica de la mulatez (1990), and of numerous articles relating to the topic of race in Latin American writings (including Brazil and the Spanish Speaking Caribbean), and of African Latin American literatures and cultures.
I have been the recipient of numerous awards, amongst them s Rockefeller Fellowship, a Social Sciences Research Council award, and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship. Most recently, she was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the University of the Andes , in Bogotá , Colombia .
For the past six years, I have been working primarily on Cuban literature and cultural studies. To that effect, I compiled and edited a special issue of Afro Hispanic Review dedicated to the late writer Manuel Granados, and I am working on a book-length manuscript on the Cuban 60s and the intersection of art, race and revolution in the country during the first decade of the Revolution. I am the founder and coordinator of the Cuba in Americas and Transatlantic Contexts research unit, a research unit sponsored by the Institute for Humanities at UC Santa Cruz, and also a founding member of the UC-Cuba Academic Initiative, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Program |
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PUBLISHED WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Books and Monographs
Para una semiótica de la mulatez. Madrid: Editorial Porrúa Turanzas, 1990.
Edited Volumes and Anthologies
Special Issue of Afro Hispanic Review 22, dedicated to the late "Afro-Cuban" writer Manuel Granados. Spring 2005.
Articles in Professional Journals
-- "Descolonizando el mito del negro en Adire y el tiempo roto, de Manuel Granados," Afro-Hispanic Review 22.1:22-30.
-- "Hibridismo no Atlántico negro: O caso de Chombo." Revista de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos. Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 35:81-96.
Reprinted in Travessia 38 (1999):125-143.
-- "Mestizaje and the Discourse of National/Cultural Identity in Latin America, 1845-1959." Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 25.3: 21-42.
-- "Hybridity and Diasporization in the 'Black Atlantic': The Case of Chombo." Publications of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, 1.1: 117-129. Reprinted in CLRC Research and News
Update 8 (1997):6 and 19.
-- "The Politics of Afro-Cuban Religion in Contemporary Cuban Cinema." Afro Hispanic Review, 20.3-4: 16-22.
--. "'Martí y las razas': A Re-Evaluation." Re-Reading José Martí. One Hundred Years Later. Ed. Julio Rodríguez Luis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 115-127.
-- "O culturalismo dos ańos trenta no Brasil: dislocamento retórico ou mudança conceitual?" Maio, M.C., and Santo, R.V. (eds), Raça, Cięncia, e Sociedade, Rio de Janeiro: FIOCRUZ/CCBB.
-- "The IV Afro-Brazilian Congress: A Critical Review," Publications of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, 1.1: 147-150. |
| Education History | |
1984 Ph.D., Spanish American Literatures, UC San Diego
1980 M.A., Latin American and African History, UC San Diego
1977 B.A., Spanish Language and Literature, UC San Diego |
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