DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
Lizabel Mónica

HOST:
Juliana Rabelo


Synopsis:

A conversation about the field of literature in contemporary Cuba associated with new forms of citizenship and their reconfiguration through dialectics of economic-mediatic subversion, dissident politics in the cultural blogosphere, the appearance of digital magazines, the writer as prosumer, technological expansion, independent presses and literature as document.

Bio:

Lizabel Mónica

Lizabel Mónica is a transdisciplinary writer and educator currently finishing her doctoral thesis about the impact of digital technology in the Cuban literature field for the Latin American Studies program at Princeton University. As an educator, she teaches at The Lawrenceville School. Monica has been invited to speak about her academic and creative work at universities and cultural institutions in Cuba and the United States. She is the author of numerous transdisciplinary works of poetry and fiction, many of which have been translated and published in anthologies internationally.

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Literature by other means: Digital Technology and the field of Literature in Contemporary Cuba

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