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- Title
Teresa Dovalpage, posesa y deslenguada de La Habana.
- Authors
Cuesta, Mabel
- Abstract
Cuban novelist Teresa Dovalpage's Posesas de La Habana (2004) (The Possessed Women of Havana) is representative of the rise of a new post-Soviet imaginary in Cuba, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. After reviewing the superposition and identifications among the national body, history, and the four women protagonists of the novel, the article focuses on demonstrating how the foul speech of Beiya, the youngest of the four Cuban women, confirms the crumbling of values in this new Cuba and shows the role of women in the new nation. The use of that deformed vocabulary in the domestic sphere reveals a nation that is invisible in the media, which are at the service of State power.
- Subjects
POSESAS de La Habana (Book); DOVALPAGE, Teresa; DEMONIAC possession in literature; SOCIAL degeneration in literature; CUBAN literature
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2012, Vol 16, Issue 31, p162
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Literary Criticism