Reinaldo Arenas in Mariel. Revista de literatura y arte: the Strategy of Deviation

Abstract

This article aims to present an analysis of the essays written by Reinaldo Arenas in a cultural magazine called Mariel Revista de Literatura y Arte (1983 - 1985), of which he was one of the directors, with the Cuban writers Juan Abreu and Reinaldo García Ramos. The emphasis is on the texts published in a section of the magazine entitled "Confluencias", in which a set of texts on the Cuban literary canon was published. The objective is to analyze the writing strategies, the intertextual relationships, and the areas of confluence, thus outlining his politics of writing in the magazine. In this sense, we propose the idea of "deviation" to understand an important strategy and outline of his writing in the magazine and, in general, of an important area (and less studied) of his work: the literary criticism.

Keywords

• reinaldo arenas
• revistas culturales
• crítica literaria latinoamericana
• exilio cubano, literatura y canon.