"Mi Carne, Mi Sangre, Mis Ilusiones": The Collision of Words and Worlds in Milcha Sanchez-Scott's the Cuban Swimmer (Critical Essay) "Mi Carne, Mi Sangre, Mis Ilusiones": The Collision of Words and Worlds in Milcha Sanchez-Scott's the Cuban Swimmer (Critical Essay)

"Mi Carne, Mi Sangre, Mis Ilusiones": The Collision of Words and Worlds in Milcha Sanchez-Scott's the Cuban Swimmer (Critical Essay‪)‬

Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 2010, Spring-Summer, 27, 2

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In the spring of 2009, when I was floundering at learning Spanish while teaching a course in magical realism with my university's study abroad program in Montevideo, Uruguay, a colleague sent me The Cuban Swimmer, a bilingual play with magical realist elements by Hispanic playwright Milcha Sanchez-Scott. I chose to think of the appearance of that type of play in my email inbox at just that time as more than a coincidence--though not exactly magical--and I set about reading it with my Spanish-English dictionary close at hand. There's something about living and teaching in another country and attempting to speak another language that makes one realize how little one truly understands, and I thought that reading the play might possibly help me work through some of my own marginalized feelings. I was right. The Cuban Swimmer is a boisterous, tightly-wound play, harrowing and energetic enough to take on the waves and splash of a mystical story set at sea. Additionally, it's heavy on the realism and light on the magic until the final montage, and Sanchez-Scott does well in capturing the musical and discordant notes in the language and actions of a family of Cuban immigrants who place their hopes for the family's future on their daughter Margarita, a long-distance ocean swimmer. The back of the playbook itself describes the main plot of the story as one of transcendence: "As they bicker and exhort her, she begins to weary and stray off course--until a spiritual and magical intervention reinvigorates her and she resolves to 'dive into the Milky Way and wash [her] hands in the stars.'" The more poetic images collide with the salt and sun and waves of the material world and help us believe that miracles just might be possible.

GENRE
Ouvrages de référence
SORTIE
2010
22 mars
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
14
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Sports Literature Association
TAILLE
365,7
Ko

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