Cuba: Idea of a Nation DisplacedAndrea O'Reilly Herrera In Cuba, internationally renowned artists, philosophers, and writers reflect on the idea of a nation displaced. Featuring contributions from Isabel Alvarez Borland, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, María Cristina García, William Navarrete, Eliana Rivero, Rafael Rojas, and Carlos Victoria, as well as many others, Cuba is a rich collection of essays, testimonials, and interviews that reveal the complex, often antagonistic cultural and political debates coexisting within the Cuban exile population. As a multivoiced text, Cuba formulates a deeper understanding of diasporic identity, and broadens the discussion of the manner in which Cuban cultural identity and nationhood have been constructed, negotiated, and transformed by physical and cultural displacement. |
Contents
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Part One We Are Here Thereand EverywhereA Nation Displaced | 13 |
Cubans in Spain | 15 |
2 Cuban Exiles in France | 35 |
Reconfiguring Caribbean Imaginaries | 47 |
An Introduction | 75 |
Cubans in Venezuela 19591998 | 90 |
Articulating a Marginal Experience of the Cuban Diaspora | 194 |
13 A CubanChinese Familia | 215 |
An Afternoon with Tania León | 223 |
Cultural Transformationin Diaspora | 235 |
15 Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature | 237 |
Zoé Valdés and the Writers of the 90s Generation | 253 |
Recent US Cuban Writing of Diaspora | 267 |
Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Contemporary CubanAmerican Literature | 285 |
Jewbans in the Diaspora | 107 |
Cuban Chinese in New York City | 123 |
The Hidden Topic of Race between White and Black Cubans in Tampa | 132 |
Part Two Identities in Motion | 141 |
Cuban Culture at the Crossroads | 143 |
The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective | 161 |
History Imagination and the Recovery of the Lost Generation | 176 |
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