Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
32 - Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the Matanzas-based Cuban publishing house Ediciones Vigía, founded in 1985 by writer Alfredo Zaldívar Muñoa and the poet and graphic and set designer Rolando Estévez Jordán, initially as a space for artistic events and performative encounters through a network of writers, artists, artisans, musicians, students, teachers, professors, and workers. Situating the publishing enterprise and its singular book objects within Matanzas’s rich and disturbing economic development and cultural history, forged by slavery and the amassing of sugar wealth in the nineteenth century, the chapter analyzes the twentieth-century economic factors that contributed to the Vigía endeavor and provides illuminating and detailed information about its unique strategies of bricolage and convergences in its book objects, among multiple artistic forms and techniques.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 503 - 515Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
References
Works Cited
Barnet, Miguel. Fátima o El Parque de la Fraternidad. Design by Rolando Estévez Jordán, Ediciones Vigía, 2011.Google Scholar
Behar, Ruth, Cordones-Cook, Juanamaría, and Schwain, Kristin, editors. Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía. U of Florida P, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cordones-Cook, Juanamaría. “La voz visual de Rolando Estévez Jordán.” Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 31, no. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 27–53.Google Scholar
Ediciones Vigía: Abriendo archivos/Opening Archives (1985–2011). Directed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. University of Missouri, 2012.Google Scholar
Ediciones Vigía: Entre la palabra y la imagen/Between the Word and the Image. Directed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. University of Missouri, 2012.Google Scholar
Ediciones Vigía: Poéticas visuales/Visual Poetics. Directed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. University of Missouri, 2012.Google Scholar
La Habana expuesta: Un diseño de Estévez/Havana on Display: A Design by Estévez. Directed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. University of Missouri, 2012.Google Scholar
López, César. Pasos, paseos, pasadizos. Design by Rolando Estévez Jordán, Ediciones Vigía, 2008.Google Scholar
Martínez Carmenate, Urbano. Atenas de Cuba, del mito a la verdad. Ediciones Matanzas, 1993.Google Scholar
Morejón, Nancy. La Habana Expuesta/Havana on Display. Edited with an introduction and notes by Cordones-Cook, Juanamaría, design by Rolando Estévez Jordán, Ediciones Vigía, 2012.Google Scholar
Morejón, Nancy . “Nancy Morejón reflexiona sobre Estévez y su obra.” Interview by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 31, no. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 187–192.Google Scholar
Morejón, Nancy . Pierrot y la Luna. Critical introduction by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, design by Rolando Estévez Jordán, Ediciones Vigía, 2006.Google Scholar
Un libro único de Estévez/A One-of-a-Kind Book by Estévez. Directed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. University of Missouri, 2012.Google Scholar