Ariel Arjona

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

214 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Ariel Arjona graduated with a Philosophy degree completing his coursework at both the University of Havana and the University of Minnesota. His research interests include the formation of national identities in the Caribbean with a focus on Literature, Art, Architecture and Philosophy.

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Publications

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Publications

Arjona, Ariel. "Irracialidad en Macunaíma: un héroe sin ninguna raza." Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 51.1 (2022): 91-105.
Arjona, Ariel. "Was Funes capable of Thought? Reading Borges’s story Funes el memorioso through the lens of Kripke’s ideas on Wittgenstein." Variaciones Borges 53 (2022).
Arjona, Ariel. "El corazón, Jonás y la ballena en un poema de Luis Marimón." Hypermedia Magazine (2022).
Arjona, Ariel. "Una novela sobre el tiempo: representación de la identidad en Sombras desde el Ubangui." Isliada (2022).
Arjona, Ariel. "Ascención y caída de la fruta en la identidad nacional." Hypermedia Magazine (2021).
Arjona, Ariel, Ernesto Caveda. "Implicaciones bíblicas de la expresión "siete veces" en el poema "La semilla estéril" de José Zacarías Tallet." Palabra nueva: revista de la arquidiócesis de la Habana (2021).
Arjona, Ariel. ""La representación del espacio en dos poemas de Tallet"." Cecilia Eraso (Ed) Ecos críticos de las vanguardias en América Latina (2021): 47-62.

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Activities

Professional

Presenter: "The City of Matanzas in the Poetry of Hugo Hodelín" Caribbean SoStudies Association, May 30th – Jun 3rd, 2022.
Presenter: “Repetición y diferencia en la voz narrativa: De ‘El huésped’ de Amparo Dávila a ‘La compañía’ de Veronica Gerber” Latin American Studies Associasion, May 5th – 8th, 2022.
Presenter: “Memoria y pensamiento en el cuento “Funes el memorioso” de Jorge Luis Borges” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, February 25th, 2022
Presenter: “Representación de la identidad nacional cubana usando la imagen de la fruta: de ‘A la piña’ de Manuel de Zequeira hasta ‘La muerte del poeta’ de Jorge Pablo Lima” Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, October 15th – 16th, 2021
Presenter: “Ontología del ser revolucionario en Cuba desde 1959" Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Wisconsin, October 8th – 9th, 2021
Presenter: “El son y la representación de la identidad afrocubana en Guillén” Caribbean Studies Association, May 30th – Jun 4th, 2021
Presenter: “Re-mapping Cuban Communities: On the 50th Anniversary of the Case of Heberto Padilla in the Context of the Current Ideological State of Cuban Society” The University of Minnesota World Languages and Literatures Graduate Conference, March 5th, 2021

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