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9780791471999

Cuba : Idea of a Nation Displaced

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791471999

  • ISBN10:

    0791471993

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-08-09
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
"Hablando en Diasporas"/"Speaking in Diasporas"p. 1
Introductionp. 3
"Exilio es olvido"/"Exile Is a Forgetting"p. 3
We Are Here, There, and Everywhere, a Nation Displaced
"Transplantado"/"Transplanted"p. 13
Memory, Politics, and Diaspora: Cubans in Spainp. 15
Cuban Exiles in Francep. 35
Puerto Rican Cubanness: Reconfiguring Caribbean Imaginariesp. 47
The Cuban Population of the United States: An Introductionp. 75
Different Diasporas: Cubans in Venezuela, 1959-1998p. 90
"Hebrew with a Cuban Accent": Jewbans in the Diasporap. 107
In Search of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: Cuban Chinese in New York Cityp. 123
"We All Lived Here Together": The Hidden Topic of Race between White and Black Cubans in Tampap. 132
Identities in Motion
"El rostra de una nacion"/"The Face of a Nation"p. 141
Identity and Diaspora: Cuban Culture at the Crossroadsp. 143
Networks, Remittances, and Family Restaurants: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspectivep. 161
The Politics of Mis-ReMembering: History, Imagination and the Recovery of the Lost Generationp. 176
In Two or More (Dis)Places: Articulating a Marginal Experience of the Cuban Diasporap. 194
A Cuban-Chinese Familiap. 215
In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leonp. 223
The Space Between History and Memory: Cultural Transformation in Diaspora
"Book of Heather"p. 235
Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literaturep. 237
"Fertile Multiplicities": Zoe Valdes and the Writers of the '90s Generationp. 253
"A Homecoming without a Home": Recent U.S. Cuban Writing of Diasporap. 267
"The Dream of Paradise": Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Contemporary Cuban-American Literaturep. 285
"Defying Liminality":The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the Diasporap. 301
List of Artistsp. 311
Cap Cubano a La Grise!p. 313
Framing the Cuban Diaspora: Representation and Dialogue in Recent Filmic Productionsp. 314
Music and Nationp. 328
The Inheritancep. 341
Epiloguep. 345
"Cruza Fronteras"p. 345
Contributorsp. 347
Indexp. 355
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