Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces

By Lori Oxford

In Pedro Juan Guti rrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces, Lori Oxford conducts a series of close readings that expound on Guti rrez's interpretation of life and reality in the spaces of the Special Period throughout the five works that make up his Ciclo Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003). Guti rrez's settings oscillate between the utopian, the dystopian, and the heterotopian in unexpected fashion, often revealing his protagonists' surprising affinity for the latter two. In her examination of Guti rrez's use of these interwoven -topian spaces, Oxford shows how the three spaces, although apparently contradictory, have managed to coexist in Cuba and demonstrates how they are all reflected in Guti rrez's fiction, often simultaneously, just as they exist in Cuba's reality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666910031
• ISBN13: 9781666910032
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"