Constancias. Una lectura topológica de la cotidianeidad cubana contemporánea

Abstract

The notion of “topology” coming from the hard sciences brings to literary criticism its operativity to describe the narrative as a space that locates places of literary reading. The topicalized spaces are recognized by drawing a spatiality created by the experience of recent writers of Cuban literature, in a fictional representation. Havana is constituted by its subjects that inhabit, migrate and demolish symbolic walls to figure their existence. We will follow the movement they make through tiny corners that make literary “the common” everyday and that, somehow, create topologies as a political way of responding to the being-there, with which they act in strategic decisions and splits. Thus, they become writing material that places them in the Cuban, islander or exiled literary body. In this way, we recognize a “non-epic” in this critical study that uncovers a way to account for a literary procedure and a desire to narrate life in Cuba.