Paradiso como proyecto político

Rather than being apolitical, José Lezama's Paradiso conceives the political at another level, in an aesthetic realm of friendship and conviviality set up by writing. The posthumous second volume of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, is brought into an analysis of the literary republic of friendship postulated as an alternative to the heroic nationalist politics of the Cuban Revolution

El doble del bárbaro: Joserramón Meléndes

This exegesis of the book Contraqelarre (2010) by Puerto Rican poet Joserramón Melendes argues that his writing challenges the aesthetic sovereignty of Western Modernism precisely by 'doubling' it and thus inoculating it with his difference as a marginal, 'uncivilized' Caribbean writer

Por un comunismo literario

Draws on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay on "literary Communism" in order to relate contemporary literary criticism to the critique of the communist failure in the twentieth century and the posing a of a non-immanent and non-transcendental, non-Utopian literary politics