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Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Professor, Filmmaker, University of Missouri
Professor Cordones-Cook has made 23 films dealing with leading
AfroCuban artists and writers.
Professor Cordones-Cook has published extensively articles on contemporary
Spanish American literature and culture with special interest on
Afro-Hispanic writers in major national and international journals in the
United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Her articles have
appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Théatre, Chasqui, World Literature
Today, Revista del Vigía, Hispamérica, Revista de Estudios Canadienses,
Hispanófila, Plural, La Palabra y el Hombre, Revista Unión, Conjunto, Casa
de las Américas, Anales del Caribe, among others.
She works on projects related to postcolonial theories and issues of
identity, race, and gender as they relate to the Afro-Latin American
Diaspora. Professor Cordones-Cook also explores the way in which writers
incorporate the cultural and political processes of their regions into
their works. She has collaborated on numerous projects with authors and
artists such as Luisa Valenzuela, Nancy Morejón, Manuel Mendive, Rogelio
Martínez Furé, Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, Georgina Herrera, Alberto
Lescay, Eduardo Rivero Walker, Maité Vera, Víctor Fowler, Inés María
Martiatu, Soleida Ríos, Rolando Estévez Jordán, Roberto Diago, Eduardo
“Choco” Roca Salazar, Gloria Rolando, Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Rosa María
Crespo de Britton, Cristina Escofet, Ruth Behar, and Adriana Genta, among
others. --
Bio/CV
Call for Papers: “Afro-Cuban Legacies: Visual Arts, Literature,
Theatre, Music, and Religion” 1/5/2020 Repeating Islands: "An
international conference to be held at the University of Missouri,
April 7-10, 2021. The conference includes the participation
Juan
Roberto Diago,
Alberto Lescay Merencio,
Nancy Morejon,
Fatima
Patterson, Albertico Lescay Castellanos, and Zule Guerra. The
deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2020." Juanamaría
Cordones-Cook.
Juanamaría Cordones-Cook Documentaries
Her documentaries have received numerous national and
international awards including an Emmy nomination. They have been
screened hundreds of times at prestigious venues around the world
including the University of Humboldt, Berlin; La Sorbonne, Paris;
the University de Lyon, France; the University of Humboldt, Berlin;
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the University de Cartagena,
Colombia; Casa de las Américas and Fundación Caguayo, Cuba; Harvard
University; the Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Washington
University; among many others, and at major national and
international museums and festivals, as well as at festivals
dedicated to Cordones-Cook films. See her
full list of films and
screenings, incuding those not commercially available.
Reseña, "Del palenque a la
escena: antología crítica de teatro afrolatinoamericano",
Juanamaria Cordones Cook, U Nacional de Colombia, 2012, por John
Maddox, Afro-Hisanic Review, Vol 33 No 2, Fall 2014
University Of Missouri
Afro-Cuban Artists:
A Renaissance Columbia, Missouri
April 27-30, 2016, organized by Juanamaria Cordones-Cook
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