Abilio Estévez Narrative: Towards an Aesthetics of the Subjetion-Commoratio

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Fernanda Bustamante

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This article is intended to make a critical approach to the narrative of Abilio Estévez, an exiled Cuban writer. To that effect, I will begin with the identifi cation and questioning of his aesthetic procedures: in terms of rhetoric (semantic fi eld, metaphor, allegory) and structure (intertextuality, polyphony, marginal notes, paratext, metaliterary). It is possible to observe how his literary project is able to articulate a subjetion-commoratio aesthetics. In this context, Cuba (La Habana) is presented as the writer’s material and the “totalizing narrator” as its canvas

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Fernanda Bustamante

Universidad de Barcelona, España fernandabustamante@gmail.com