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Cuba I+Real: Singularidades De Lo Fantástico Y La Ciencia Ficción En La Cuba Contemporánea Licet Garcia Lgarc061@Fiu.Edu Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 11-9-2018 Cuba i+real: Singularidades de lo Fantástico y la Ciencia Ficción en la Cuba Contemporánea Licet Garcia [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Latin American Literature Commons, and the Modern Languages Commons Recommended Citation Garcia, Licet, "Cuba i+real: Singularidades de lo Fantástico y la Ciencia Ficción en la Cuba Contemporánea" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3885. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3885 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida CUBA i+REAL: SINGULARIDADES DE LO FANTÁSTICO Y LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN EN LA CUBA CONTEMPORÁNEA A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in SPANISH by Licet García Simón 2018 To: Dean John F. Stack, Jr. Green School of International and Public Affairs This dissertation, written by Licet García Simón, and entitled Cuba i+Real: singularidades de lo fantástico y la ciencia ficción en la Cuba contemporánea, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment. We have read this dissertation and recommend that it be approved. _________________________________________ Ricardo Castells _________________________________________ Andrea Fanta _________________________________________ Astrid Arrarás _________________________________________ Santiago Juan-Navarro, Major Professor Date of Defense: November 9, 2018 The dissertation of Licet García Simón is approved. _________________________________________ Dean John F. Stack, Jr. Green School of International and Public Affairs _________________________________________ Andrés G. Gil Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Dean of the University Graduate School Florida International University, 2018 ii © Copyright 2018 by Licet García Simón All rights reserved. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Quiero agradecer a mi director de tesis, el profesor Santiago Juan-Navarro, por su generosidad, sus valiosos consejos, su confianza y su inestimable apoyo. Gracias también a los profesores Andrea Fanta, Ricardo Castells y Astrid Arrarás, por sus comentarios fundamentales y por su cálido afecto. Gracias a Déborah Gómez, siempre disponible y cercana, por sus minuciosas lecturas y correcciones, y por su apoyo constante todos estos años. Gracias infinitas a mi madre, sin cuya ayuda no hubiese llegado hasta aquí. Agradezco además a UGS por haberme otorgado las becas DEA y DYF para la realización de esta tesis. iv ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION CUBA i+REAL: SINGULARIDADES DE LO FANTÁSTICO Y LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN EN LA CUBA CONTEMPORÁNEA by Licet García Simón Florida International University, 2018 Miami, Florida Professor Santiago Juan-Navarro, Major Professor Ever since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, Cuba has witnessed an unprecedented productive boom in the genres of science fiction and the fantastic. A large number of the literary and cinematic works that have surfaced during the last half-century attempt to replace and ultimately reify motifs and scenarios appropriated from the various science fiction and fantastic narratives in world literature and have generated alternative or imagined settings that challenge extant sociopolitical realities and certainties of the island. My dissertation, “Cuba i+Real: singularidades de lo fantástico y la ciencia ficción en la Cuba contemporánea”, examines these literary texts in a Post-Soviet context, analyzing the ways they reimagine the themes, plot devices, and scenarios traditional to the different genres. My argument is that, in most cases, the narratives are carefully and intentionally transformed, adapting them to the strenuous political and economic circumstances of the island and to the tense social conditions of the post-Soviet era. My thesis both decentralizes and expands contemporary debates about fantastic and science fiction theories by recognizing—and including—Cuban science fiction and fantastic production within broader conversations about the relationship between science v fiction, the fantastic, and politics. My dissertation builds and expands upon the contemporary currents in literature, exploring how Cuban science fiction and fantastic texts provide a new, imaginative space and frontier to interrupt and contest the Cuban Revolution's hegemonic and monolithic discursive arcs, while allowing for a unique transnational corpus formation which not only crosses many generic and formal boundaries, but also evades and goes beyond existing theoretical and thematic paradigms. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCCIÓN ............................................................................................................. 1 1. EL GÉNERO FANTÁSTICO Y LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN: DEFINICIONES Y PERSPECTIVAS TEÓRICAS……………………………………………………14 1.1. Lo fantástico: manifestaciones históricas, teorías y actualidad ………..… 14 1.2. La ciencia ficción, los géneros proyectivos y la literatura prospectiva ...... 37 1.3. Los caminos del fantástico y la ciencia ficción en la literatura cubana ….. 49 2. ALTERIDAD Y MONSTRUOSIDAD EN LO FANTÁSTICO CUBANO ……......71 2.1. El vampiro clásico y la reelaboración moderna del arquetipo .…………... 75 2.2. Del vampiro ideologizado al vampiro postmoderno: Vampiros en la Habana, Nostalgia, 159 y Monstruos en el abecedario .............….............. …………………………………………...80 2.3. Vampirismo y antropofagia: vampiros híbridos y pseudo-vampiros en Semiótica para lobos y Al acecho ............…………………….............101 2.4. La metalepsis como estrategia de lo fantástico en La choza embrujada de Lázaro Díaz Cala ...............................………………………...……….115 3. IDENTIDADES CENTRÍFUGAS, DESDOBLAMIENTOS Y SIMULACROS EN LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN CUBANA ………………...........................................122 3.1. Mechs vs. Shapers: modelos del yo centrífugo ………..........…………... 122 3.2. Recuerdos de un país zombie de Erick Mota: biopunk en clave cubana.........................................................................................................131 3.3. Cuba virtual: ruina, simulacro y memoria prostética en Adansonia Digitata de Michel Encinosa Fu………………………………146 3.4. Tecnología, género y feminismo en Sólo Marta de Bruno Henríquez ......159 4. EL HUMOR EN EL FANTÁSTICO CUBANO: CRÓNICAS FANTÁSTICO-HUMORÍSTICAS DE LA CUBA CONTEMPORÁNEA ……….170 4.1. Definición del humor, teorías del humor y conceptos afines ………….... 170 4.2. Lo fantástico y el humor: convergencias y divergencias …………...…... 177 4.3. El gran golpe, Un equipo peligroso y El banquete: las penurias alimenticias del Período Especial en el imaginario lúdico-fantástico de Esther Díaz Llanillo ……..........................................181 4.4. Diálogo de sordos: miradas irónicas al boom de las religiones afrocubanas en Elegguá Spray y Prefijos de María Elena Llana…………198 4.5. Lo fantástico, el miedo metafísico y el humor en Juan de los muertos de Alejandro Brugués ................................................................................212 vii 5. EL HUMOR EN LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN CUBANA: HISTORIAS FUTURISTAS DEL PRESENTE .........................................................……………226 5.1. La ciencia ficción y el humor …………………………………………… 226 5.2. La tradición humorística en la ciencia ficción cubana ………………….. 228 5.3. Un mundo mejor es posible de Eduardo del Llano Rodríguez: un aporte cubano al cuento cuántico ..………………………...…………......231 5.4. Ficciones contrafactuales: distopía y ucronía en Habana Underguater de Erick J. Mota .........................................................................................241 5.5. La actualidad política parodiada: una representación caricaturesca de las relaciones entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos en El diferendo de Jorge Bacallao .......................................................................................248 CONCLUSIONES ......................................................................................................... 254 BIBLIOGRAFÍA ........................................................................................................... 266 VITA .............................................................................................................................. 278 viii INTRODUCCIÓN No es necesario hacer un “El señor de los anillos” en Cuba, tierra de mambises locos que enfrentaban con machetes de acero de Toledo a regimientos de infantería española armada con fusiles y artillería alemana. Tierra donde sacerdotes de las islas del Caribe sacrifican vacas en la enganga de la Loma del cimarrón; y a solo 200 metros de allí, en el Santuario de la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, reposa el premio Nobel de literatura entregado a Ernest Hemingway. Erick J. Mota La literatura no necesita como la ciencia la prueba de la verdad. En ella todo es inventado Villar Dégano El hecho de que el discurso ideológico del Régimen Revolucionario Cubano moldee y rija la política cultural de la Isla hace que el producto literario —y la producción cultural en general— adquiera en Cuba una dimensión política. En el caso del género fantástico y de la ciencia ficción, la incidencia
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