DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Francisco Morán
HOST:
Juliana Ravelo
Synopsis:
A conversation about the deterritorialization of relationships of belonging, how to defy closed models and the civic potential of editorial projects. Revisiting La Habana Elegante: segunda época (a literary, culture and aesthetics quarterly for Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin American active between 1998 and 2015), Moran reveals ways of blurring the line between writing on the island and writing from exile through the reinvention of the national space. What is the broader purpose of a publisher? How is it possible to create communities through publishing? How can we create a confluence of minor stories and larger ones?
Bio:
Francisco Morán Lull
(Havana Cuba, 1952)
Francisco Morán Lull (Havana, 1952) is a graduate of the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique J. Varona and Doctor in Philosophy and Literature from Georgetown University. A poet, literary critic and professor emeritus in Hispanic Literature at Southern Methodist University, his publications include the essays Casal à Rebours (Havana, 1996), Julián del Casal o los pliegues del deseo (Madrid, 2008) and Martí, la justicia infinita (Madrid, 2014). He has received the Ciudad de Cieza poetry award for Habanero tú (1997) and the Luis Cernuda for El cuerpo del delito (1999). He is the editor of the anthology of Cuban poetry La Isla en su tinta (1999). He has published critical editions of the anthologies La pasión del obstáculo - poemas y cartas de Juana Borrero (2005), Poesía y prosa de Bonifacio Byrne (2011), and the novel Aponte (Francisco Calcagno) (2016). He edited, prologued and compiled the book Julian del Casal (in Memoriam) (2012). He is the founder and director of the digital literary journal La Habana Elegante (1998-2015).
