‘A Piece of Revolutionary History and Culture: Afro-Testimonies from the Cuban 1960s’

We are pleased to invite you to ‘A Piece of Revolutionary History and Culture: Afro-Testimonies from the Cuban 1960s’, a talk with Prof. Lourdes Martínez Echazábal.

Lourdes  Martínez Echazábal is Emerita Professor of Literature and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught for many years and helped shape generations of students and scholars. Over the course of her career, she has also been a visiting professor at universities throughout Latin America, sustaining an ongoing intellectual dialogue across the region.

Her work moves across Latin American literature and film, Extended Caribbean studies—particularly focused on Cuba, Puerto Rico and Brazil—and the intertwined questions of race, gender, and sexuality, approached through postcolonial and decolonial frameworks. Alongside these areas, she has maintained a deep and evolving interest in memory, narrative, and visual culture, often exploring how archives—both official and intimate—are constructed and contested.
 
She is the author of Para una semiótica de mulatez (1990), a foundational study that continues to resonate in discussions of race and representation, as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Her editorial work includes a special issue of Afro-Hispanic Review dedicated to the Cuban writer Manuel Granados (2005), and the co-edited volume Genealogies of Displacement: Between Migration and Exile (2005). She is currently at work on a book tentatively titled The Global 60s: Art, Race and Revolution at the Cuban Crossroad, while also pursuing more experimental, sui generis forms of writing and visuality that move beyond the conventions of academic discourse.

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