CANADA

Rey-Montejo, Sonia (University of Colorado, Boulder). "Facing the Ghosts of the Past: Trespassing Boundaries of Time and Space in Daina Chaviano's La isla de los amores infinitos." Anunciada para la 61st Annual RMMLA Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (October 4-6, 2007). 
Abstract: In this paper I intend to analyze the literal and symbolic boundaries expressed in a contemporary example of Latino U.S. literary text such as Daína Chaviano’s new novel published in Spain by Grijalbo. In her novel La isla de los amores infinitos (2006), the Cuban American author depicts a character caught between Miami and her native Havana. In this text, Chaviano not only portrays the articulation and the struggles of the main character’s identity after her crossing over to the main land, but also depicts the crossing of metaphorical boundaries restricted by time. The narration of a saga of three families from different world locations such as Spain, Asia and Africa, from 1850 to the present day, carries the reader spatially and temporally through a world with no barriers. The rendering of this borderless world reaches its maximum value when the ghosts of the past interact with the living entities, and the line that separates life and death becomes blurry. 
 
 

UNITED STATES

Fuentes, Yvette. “From Atabey to Hatuey: Manifestations of the Indigenous in Cuban Art and Literature,” International Caribbean Conference, University of Texas-Pan-American, South Padre Island, November 2-5, 2006. 
(Analysis on Cuban authors and artists that incorporate indigenous culture and art in their works, with emphasis in Ana Mendieta's works and Daína Chaviano's El hombre, la hembra y el hambre)

Fuentes, Yvette. “Contrapunteo de dos cubanazos: El discurso masculino en El hombre, la hembra y el hambre de Daína Chaviano,” [Argument Between Two Cuban Men: The Male Discourse in El hombre, la hembra y el hambre]. Second International Conference on Creation and Exile: Con Cuba en la distancia, Cadiz, Spain, May 2003. 

McAllister, Robin. "An Extraterrestrial Perspective on Daína Chaviano's La isla de los amores infinitos." 28a International Conference on the Fantastic on the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. March 15, 2007.

McAllister, Robin. "Shamanic Imagination in Daína Chaviano's Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother." 27th International Conference on the Fantastic oin the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. March 17, 2006.

 McAllister, Robin. "Merlin and Stonehenge in Daina Chaviano's Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother." 26th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. March 18, 2005.

McAllister, Robin. "Shamanic Imagination in Daína Chaviano's Fables of An Extraterrestrial Grandmother." 25th International Conference on the Fantsstic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. March 25, 2004. 

Toledano, Juan C. "Daina Chaviano’s Fabulas de una abuela extraterrestre. The Postmodern Subject." 25th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. March 24-28, 2004. 
 

GERMANY

Bolte, Rike. "Sobre formas de vida terrestres ‘retro‘ y ‘trans’: dinosaurios y cyborgs en Daína Chaviano y Carmen Boullosa, leídos según Donna Haraway". [On 'retro' and 'trans' terrestrial life forms: dinosaurs and cyborgs in Daína Chaviano and Carmen Boullosa, according to Donna Haraway]. To be read at the Latin American Studies Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, February 13th 2007.

Bolte, Rike. "La (re)invención y (r)evolución del pasado y del futuro. Discursos y depósitos mnemotécnicos en Carmen Boullosa y Daína Chaviano: la memoria prehumana, posthumana y paralela, y el dispositivo de lo orgánico y postorgánico" [The (re)invention and (r)evolution of past and future. Discourses and mnemotechnic mechanisms in Carmen Boullosa and Daína Chaviano: pre-human, post-human and parallel memory, and the organic and the postorganic resource"], presented in Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Bogota, August 2006. Published in the CD "Memorias del Congreso, 2006" (Congress Memoires 2006).
 
 

UNITED STATES

San Martín Moreno, Araceli. "La Habana real y La Habana imaginada". Aves de paso: Autores latinoamericanos entre exilio y transculturación (1970-2002). Ed. Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner y Erna Pfeiffer (ed.). Madrid, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany: Iberoamericana; Vervuert,2005. 219-25.

Cámara, Madeline. “Novelistas cubanas en Estados Unidos: entre la memoria y la invención”. Guayaba Sweet: Literatura cubana en Estados Unidos. Ed. Laura P. Alonso Gallo, Fabio Murieta. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2003. 53-71. 

Calvo Peña, Beatriz. “Entre la memoria y el deseo: Daína Chaviano y la creación de puentes de encuentro cubanos”. Guayaba Sweet: Literatura cubana en Estados Unidos. Ed. Laura P. Alonso Gallo, Fabio Murieta. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2003. 331-49. 

Whitfield, Esther. “The Novel as Cuban Lexicon: Bargaining Bilingualism in Daína Chaviano’s El hombre, la hembra y el hambre.” Ed. Doris Sommer. Bilingual Games. Some Literary Investigations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 193-201.

Romeu, Raquel. “Daína Chaviano: La Habana recuperada”. Voces de mujeres en la literatura cubana. Madrid: Verbum, 2000. 175-87.

Cowie, Lancelot. "El jineterismo como fenómeno social en la narrativa cubana contemporánea." Revista Mexicana del Caribe. Vol. VII, number 14. Chetumal, Mexico: 2002. Universidad de Quintana Roo. 207-15. 
 

UNITED STATES

Winter Semester 2008

Institution: Grand Valley State University (Allendale, Michigan).
Department: Modern Languages & Literatures .
Course: Spanish 430: US Latino(a) Literature.
Level: Seminar, Spanish 400, B.A. Spanish.
Work included: El hombre, la hembra y el hambre. 
Professor: Dr. Yvette Fuentes
Other dates: All winter semesters (from September to December) on even years. It was also available on Winter 2004 and Winter 2006. 

Institution: Hamline University (St. Paul, Minnesota).
Departament: Modern Languages and Literatures.
Course: SPAN 5980, Lo fantástico en las artes hispanas. 
Level: Advance Seminar, B.A. Spanish.
Works included: "La anunciación" (short story, from Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain). "La granja" (nouvelle, from Historias de hadas para adultos). 
Professor: Dr. Andrea Bell.
 

Winter Semester 2007

Institution: Hamline University (St. Paul, Minnesota).
Departament: Modern Languages and Literatures.
Course: SPAN 5980, Lo fantástico en las artes hispanas. 
Level: Advance Seminar, B.A. Spanish.
Work included: "La anunciación" (short story, from Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain). 
Profesor: Dr. Andrea Bell.
 

Fall Semester 2007

Institution: Idaho State University.
Course: SPAN  399, Hispanic Science Fiction.
Work included: Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre.
Professor: Dr. Sharon Lynn Lieber.

Fall Semester 2006

Institution: Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut).
Department: Spanish and Portuguese.
Course: Spanish 942 "Fiestas cubanas".
Synposis: A study of the fiestas marking the Cuban calendar from the nineteenth century to the present, how they respond to cultural and political transformations, and how they are inscribed in literature, particularly the narrative as well as film. The feast as the representation of time and social and political change.
Level: Seminar, Ph.D.
Work included: El hombre, la hembra y el hambre.
Professor: Dr. Roberto González Echevarría.
 

Fall Semester 2005

Institution: Grand Valley State University (Allendale, Michigan).
Department: Modern Languages & Literatures .
Course: Spanish 495: Capstone. 
Level: Seminar, B.A. Spanish.
Work included: Confesiones eróticas y otros hechizos (poems) 
Professor: Dr. Yvette Fuentes
 

GERMANY

Winter  Semester 2005/2006

Institution: Freie Universität Berlin. 
Department: Latin American Studies Institute.
Course: 'Cosmos Femeninos' – Zum Transfer von gender-Konditionen ins (Anti-)Utopische und Zukünftige. Science-Fiction Produktionen spanischsprachiger Autorinnen. [Cosmos Femeninos – How gender conditions are transferred to the (anti-) utopia and the future. Science fiction literary production in Spanish speaking women authors]. 
Level: Seminar, B.A. 
Works included: El abrevadero de los dinosaurios and Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre.
Professor: Rike Bolte (M.A.)
Note: The course included texts by Daína Chaviano, Angélica Gorodischer, Magdalena Moujan Otaño and Elia Barceló. 
 

Institution: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 
Department: Gender Studies Institute.
Course: 'Cosmos Femeninos' – Zum Transfer von gender-Konditionen ins (Anti-)Utopische und Zukünftige. Science-Fiction Produktionen spanischsprachiger Autorinnen. [Cosmos Femeninos – How gender conditions are transferred to the (anti-) utopia and the future. Science fiction literary production in Spanish speaking women authors].
Level: Seminar, B.A. 
Works included: El abrevadero de los dinosaurios and Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre.
Professor: Rike Bolte (M.A.)
Note: The course included texts by Daína Chaviano, Angélica Gorodischer, Magdalena Moujan Otaño and Elia Barceló. 
 
 

UNITED STATES

Lambe, Jennifer. "The Gendered Inflection of Cuban Anti-Castro Dissidence." (Chapter 3 includes an analysis of Chaviano's Casa de juegos). Brown University, 2006. 

Fuentes, Yvette. “Beyond the Nation: Issues of Identity in the Contemporary Narrative of Cuban Women Writing (in) the Diaspora”. University of Miami, 2002. (Analysis on different Cuban women writers, including the works Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre and El hombre, la hembra y el hambre, by Daína Chaviano).

Whitfield, Esther Katheryn. "Fiction(s) of Cuba in Literary Economies of the 1990s: Buying In or Selling Out?". Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2001 Oct; 62 (4): 1429. Harvard University, 2001
 

 ITALY

Calcagnini, Consuelo. "La literatura infantil y juvenil contemporánea cubana: los cuentos de Daína Chaviano" [Contemporary Cuban Literature for Children and Young Adults: Daína Chaviano's short stories] Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", 2005. (Analysis of the short stories in País de Dragones).