Fresa, memorias y hombre nuevo. Sujeto e ideología en Gutiérrez Alea
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v15i23.113127Keywords:
Cuba, ideology, subject, film, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, revolutionAbstract
The main aim of this article is to explore the relation between ideology and subject in the
work of the Cuban film director, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The analysis will be based on two
of his major works, Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), from
1968, and Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), 1993. Special emphasis will be
put on the socio-political context of these films, i.e. the Revolution and its utopiannationalist
discourse and ideology as well as the consequences of this context for the
individual and collective Cuban subject. Main conclusions of the analysis are that Alea’s
criticism of the mechanisms of exclusion created by the Revolution is fundamental and, that
it goes beyond the overt criticism of homophobic practices in Fresa y chocolate and of the
bourgeois subject in Memorias. Alea, although positively engaged in the revolutionary
process, demonstrates a capacity of fundamental social criticism and an essential ambiguity,
in which the abyss between the individual subject and the totality of the Revolution is a
central question.
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