{"id":8848,"date":"2022-09-08T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:24:54","slug":"spanish-professor-cuba-literature-religion-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/spanish-professor-cuba-literature-religion-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spanish professor plans to highlight Cuba through literature, religion, culture"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”] [image_with_animation image_url=”8889″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Assistant Professor of Spanish Axel Presas reads under a chickee along Fox Pond. Photo: Penh Alicandro ’22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

When you talk about If\u00e1, Axel Presas, an assistant professor of Spanish at Eckerd College<\/a>, leans a little forward in his seat and his hand motions come alive.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]As a Babalawo\u2014a high priest in the West African religion\u2014he takes his sacred responsibilities seriously and regards its practice as intrinsic to his heritage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Cuba, and African influence is everywhere in our culture,\u201d Presas says. \u201cWe breathe, we live, we eat, we experience and we dream in Afro Latinidad. Whoever says otherwise is not well acquainted with our culture or does not want us to know that it is true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presas received his calling to the If\u00e1 priesthood as a youth, and he believes his vocation as a professor is an opportunity to educate others on the richness of Cuba and broader Afro Latinx life through language and story. This fall, he\u2019ll be teaching Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish and Cuban Literature back in Florida, the place where his journey to academia accelerated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to teach what I know, to teach about what I have so proudly, vividly experienced and learned,\u201d he explains. \u201cI\u2019m also excited to have wonderful relationships with my students and colleagues throughout campus.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8892″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]Axel Presas, Ph.D.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]As a college student in Cuba, Presas wanted to study philosophy and be a writer. His mother took a job from the Honduran government organizing art schools and cultural programs, and later decided to defect. Presas followed, leaving behind a tradition and culture that began when a Spanish soldier ancestor married an African woman on the island 90 miles south of Miami. But in Honduras he found that Afro Latinidad was larger than his own people. Through his work as an English teacher and translator for charity organizations, Presas befriended Garifuna Hondurans and found that the commonality in their ancestry was driving him toward returning to college to finish his education.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cI decided to do something pertaining to my culture,\u201d he says. \u201cI got acquainted with the Garifuna, a different culture and people. I loved it so much I thought, Why don\u2019t I teach about that?\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Presas chose the University of South Florida to earn his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees, and along the way he met his wife, Blanca Catalina-Garcia \u201903, who sang the praises of her small liberal arts education at Eckerd<\/a>. He earned his Ph.D. in Spanish, Hispanic and Latin American Cultures, Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and published two collections of poetry, Las veces que Azrael no se detuvo (Colecci\u00f3n Valpara\u00edso de Poes\u00eda)<\/em> and El Temerario Y Otros Poemas (Colecci\u00f3n Po\u00e9ticas)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although he was quite accomplished, the longing remained for the father of two girls\u2014even as a visiting professor at Emory University\u2014to return to the warmth of Florida.<\/p>\n

An advertisement for a tenure-track position in the Spanish discipline of the college that so positively impacted his wife seemed to be the work of the spiritual world. Presas learned Eckerd College was also looking for an instructor with expertise in Afro Latinx cultures, and he knew this opportunity was the next step in his journey.<\/p>\n

In his Cuban Literature class, Presas plans to highlight four authors\u2014two male and two female, two current Cuban residents and two in exile\u2014who can illuminate the contemporary issues of the people and launch larger philosophical discussions about Afro Latinidad and resistance. To him, If\u00e1\u2019s embrace of the spirit world, divination and reverence for the natural world also exists in this philosophical conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in Cuba knows about If\u00e1, but there are not so many acolytes. This rejection of heritage is a form of racism,\u201d Presas explains. \u201cRecently, much like Chrisitanity and to a lesser degree Islam, it is being commericalized more without respect. If\u00e1 is for everybody, but not everybody is for If\u00e1.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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