"El Cerro tiene la llave": Las representaciones del Acueducto de Fernando VII y La Fuente de la India en La Habana decimonónica.

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Title: "El Cerro tiene la llave": Las representaciones del Acueducto de Fernando VII y La Fuente de la India en La Habana decimonónica.
Authors: Negrón, Ninel Valderrama (AUTHOR)
Source: Cuban Studies. 2026, Vol. 55, p135-165. 31p.
Subjects: WATER distribution, INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics), SOCIOECONOMICS, POETS, COLONIAL administration, POLITICAL science, POLITICAL attitudes
Geographic Terms: HAVANA (Cuba)
Abstract: This article discusses how water conduction was distributed in nineteenth-century Havana and how it related to the socioeconomic options available in the city. Exploring the materiality of infrastructure programs allows us to rethink technological progress in colonial places, as well as the reasons behind their implementation. The examination of visual and textual sources reveals that infrastructures did not serve as passive objects, but rather controlled people and molded political subjectivities. This article examines the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by concentrating on how certain writers saw infrastructure as magnificent at first to justify its social harm and then as prosaic to render it invisible within the colonial state. Although infrastructure is undeniably a tool for enacting various forms of oppression, this paper contends that its aesthetic capacity also allows for a resistive counterpoint to violence. A case study can be found in Plácido, an Afro-Cuban poet, who questioned and reinvented the places where Afro Cubans lived to assert his agency over the colonial realm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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