#  To Be or Not to Be Caribe: Magazine Combat in Cuba, 1944 

 



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 **February 22, 2019** 

 12:00PM - 01:45PM EST 

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 **CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

 \[\[{"fid":1008912,"view\_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"261","width":"403","style":"float: left;","alt":"To Be or Not To Be","class":"media-element file-default"}}\]\]In the absence of a flourishing book industry, literary magazines become important vehicles of literary, intellectual, and political history in Cuba. This presentation investigates a located literary-critical battle between two Havana-based literary magazines that was central to the racialization of literary and political discourse.

 **Speaker:** Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Emerson College

 **Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann**, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Brown University, and she is currently completing a book that argues for the centrality of literary magazines to pan-Caribbean discourse and Caribbean literary production. Her published and forthcoming articles include work on literary magazines and the intertextual relationship between Aimé Césaire and Lydia Cabrera. She was co-editor with Clement White of the Special Issue on Nicolás Guillén of the C.L.R. James Journal (2015), and she regularly translates literature between English and Spanish.

 Moderated by **Alejandro de la Fuente,** Harvard University, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University; Director of Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office)
- [ Cuba Studies ](/programs-initiatives/cuba-studies)
 
 

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