Author: Gisele M. RequenaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Exile Consciousness in Cuban-American Literature
Author: Gisele M. RequenaCuban-American Literature of Exile
Author: Isabel Alvarez-BorlandPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918136
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.
Almost Americans
Author: Maria del Carmen MartinezPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Generational Traumas in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature
Author: Rafael Miguel MontesPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Through a critical examination of a number of artistic, musical, and literary productions created by the children of Cuban exiles, this book defines frameworks with which to discuss second-generation Cuban-American texts. The work analyzes the social and political implications of works produced by several artists all engaged in defining a cultural identity in exile.
The Fiction of Exile
Author: Arlene GuerreroPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel
Author: Gregory HelmickPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel documents a body of emergent US Cuban literature published in Spanish and English beyond the scope and historicity of exile. Focusing on the work of Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, and Antonio Benítez Rojo, the book proposes that, rather than reinforce US Cuban exile ethnic identity developed between 1960 and the 1980s, or demonstrate a tendency toward cultural assimilation (“Americanization”) over three generations of writers, the discussed historical novels incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography. Published before the recent apertura between the US and Cuban governments, these post-exile novels anticipate themes of displacement, migration, and social marginalization as common, rather than exceptional, features of modern (and historical) life, as well as such other current (and historical) topics as gender construction and performance, figurations of race, the commoditization of culture, and urban poverty. The post-exile historical novel points to a future for US Cuban narrative and historiography, in part by investigating and featuring dissonances hidden or unacknowledged in previous Cuban exile historical fiction. The literature studied in this book further reinforces a view of two-way migration between Cuba and the United States as a normal phenomenon predating 1959, and, at the same time, as a likely shape of things to come.
Transcending Exile
Author: Gustavo Pérez FirmatPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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The Space of Cuban American Exile Narratives
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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This dissertation considers the connections between Cuban American exile writers and spatial contexts that allow people to orient themselves in new surroundings. By employing a multi-disciplinary approach, I examine the impacts of physical movement and the literal readjustment people go through in new spaces to reconsider how exiles negotiate space. Addressing several literary genres, the process by which existing in space alters social constructs, sense of self, and basic understanding of one's surroundings is investigated from multiple spatial viewpoints. The introduction sets the historical context for exile and Cuba's dynamic history and also details how space functions across disciplines, particularly literature, cultural studies, and geography. Chapter one examines the active and passive nature of representational and representations of space in Pablo Medina's The Marks of Birth. Chapter two studies the real and imagined spaces in Daína Chaviano's Island of Eternal Love, contending that melancholia, nostalgia, and displacement create a perceived space that exists to acclimate exiles with their new homeland through various forms of wayfinding. Chapter three looks at trajectories of space and time in Carlos Eire's Learning to Die in Miami, with the goal of proving that a panoptic vision of oneself is how Cuban Americans manage the trauma of exile. Chapter four states that recursive space and the relationship between writer and reader Carlos Eire's Waiting for Snow is Miami allows space to be molded as one traverses through it. Finally, chapter five, asserts that exile space is a reticulated network. Using Stuart Hall's concept of identity formation and theories on collective space, the formation of collective consciousness as it applies to exiles is explored. Contributions of this study include furthering the correlations between geographical and literary research, and spatial reconstruction and reconsidering identity-based orientation within displaced communities. This project significant for continuing the study of Cuban American exiles in the U.S, combining multiple disciplines to analyze literature and providing a comprehensive investigation of spatial theory as the foundation for unpacking the location-specific social issues and struggles of exiles.
Let's Hear Their Voices
Author: Iraida H. LópezPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438477090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers. Let’s Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the “second generation”—writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called “ABCs” (American-Born Cubans) or“AmeriCubans,” these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural United States. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama, and provides an overview of Cuban American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors—including President Obama’s Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco—the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality. “The selections chosen are excellent across the board. Collectively, they give a sense of the directions in which second-generation Cuban American writing is moving, as well as of its abiding concern with the country of origin of the first generation. The writing is impressive, strong, and compelling.” — Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Little Havana Blues
Author: Delia PoeyPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Little Havana Blues is a medley of voicesÑnarrators, essayists and poetsÑthat have come to forge a literary identity within the United States since their parents left Cuba to go into exile. However, this first comprehensive anthology of Cuban-American literature is not a symphony of the exile or immigrant generation and its letters. Instead, these writers are staking their claim on part of the American mosaic, with Pulitzer Prices and other awards in hand. But in their Americanization they are not rejecting their heritage or their Hispanic culture; rather they are Cubanizing, tropicalizing, expanding the realm of American culture and letters. Their vision is inclusive; their sources go deep into Anglo- and Hispano-European tradition and as deeply into Afro-Caribbean and mestizo culture, not to mention their love affair with popular culture and its icons. Included in Little Havana Blues are writers both established and burgeoning onto the literary scene: Pulitzer Prize winter Oscar Hijuelos, Rafael Compo, Gustavo PŽrez Firmat, Margarita Engle, Roberto Fern‡ndez, Dolores Prida, Jose Yglesias and many others. Accompanying the selections are an introduction and bibliography by the editors.