‘I would rather go on being underdeveloped.’ Rereading and recontextualising Edmundo Desnoes&apos;s 1965 novel <i>Memorias del subdesarrollo </i>

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‘I would rather go on being underdeveloped.’ Rereading and recontextualising Edmundo Desnoes's 1965 novel Memorias del subdesarrollo

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Chomsky, Noam (2004) Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. London: Penguin.
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[1] Andrews, Nadine and Hoggett, Paul (2019) ‘Facing up to ecological crisis: a psychological perspective from climate psychology’, in Facing up to Climate Reality, ed. John Foster. London: Green House Publishing, 155–73.

[2] Avila Conejo, Juan Manuel (2017) ‘Silence: history and the existential threat of nuclear war in Memorias del Subdesarrollo and Hiroshima mon Amour.‘ Unpublished Master of Arts dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/60452/AVILACONEJO-MASTERSREPORT-2017.pdf?sequence=1

[3] Bendell, Jem (2018) Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. IFLAS Occasional Paper 2. https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf.

[4] Borges, Jorge (1984) Seven Nights, tr. Eliot Weinberger (New York: New Directions Books).

[5] Burton, Julianne (1990) “‘Individual fulfilment and collective achievement’: an interview with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea”, in Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories, ed. Edmundo Desnoes and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 187–98.

[6] Chanan, Michael (1990) “Lessons of Experience”, in Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories, ed. Edmundo Desnoes and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 3–15.

[7] Chomsky, Noam (2004) Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. London: Penguin.

[8] Desnoes, Edmundo (1980) Memorias del subdesarrollo. México: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, Serie el Volador.

[9] Desnoes, Edmundo and Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás (1990) Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories, ed. Michael Chanan, New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press.

[10] Foster, John (ed.) (2019a) Facing up to Climate Reality. London: Green House Publishing.

[11] Foster, John (ed.) (2019b) ‘Where can we find hope?‘, in Facing up to Climate Reality, ed. John Foster. London: Green House Publishing, 173–91.

[12] González Echevarría, Roberto (1985) The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

[13] Heatley, Brian, Read, Rupert and Foster, John (2019) ‘Introduction: looking for hope between disaster and catastrophe’, in Facing up to Climate Reality, ed. John Foster. London: Green House Publishing, 1–13.

[14] IPCC (2018) Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels and Related Global Greenhouse Gas Emission Pathways, in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty. Paris: IPCC.

[15] Jackson, Tim (2017) Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow. Oxford: Routledge.

[16] Kernan, M. (1975) “Cuban cinema: Tomas Guiterrez Alea”, Film Quarterly, 29(2), 45–52.

[17] Klein, Naomi (2014) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster.

[18] McKibben, Bill (2019) Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play itself out? New York: Henry Holt & Co.

[19] Menton, Seymour (1975) Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

[20] Montbiot, George (2019) “Carmageddon: it's killing urban life. We must reclaim our cities before it's too late.” Guardian, 20/06/2019

[21] Oviedo, José Miguel (1976) “Un personaje de Camus en La Habana”, Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica, 3, article 11.

[22] Raworth, Kate (2017) Doughnut Economics. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing

[23] Read, Rupert and Alexander, Samuel (2019) This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations at the End of Empire, and What Lies beyond. Melbourne: Simplicity Institute.

[24] Resnais, Alain and Duras, Marguerite (1959) Hiroshima, mon amour. Paris, Argos-Films.

[25] Rowlandson, William (2018) Sartre in Cuba: Cuba in Sartre. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

[26] Santí, Enrico Mario (1981) ‘Edmundo Desnoes: la sub-novela’, Cuban Studies/Estudios cubanos, 11(1), 49–64.

[27] Schaller, Al (2009) “Pursuit of the ‘New Man’ in Edmundo Desnoes' Memories of Underdevelopment”, Hispanófila, 155, 93–106.

[28] Scoffham, Stephen (2019) ‘A bridge to the future: making sense of the SDGs’, workshop handout at Canterbury Christ Church University, Feb.

[29] Williams, Bruce (1998) “Memory in drag: historical and sexual strategies in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment”, Cinémas: Revue d'études cinématographiques/Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies, 8(3), 105–20.

[30] Zayas, Manuel (2013) ‘Entrevista: Sergio Corrieri’, Cine Cubano, 152 (Havana, April–June 2001), 42–53. Available at: https://manuelzayas.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/entrevistasergio-corrieri/.