Cuba on My Mind : Journeys to a Severed Nation

by De LA Campa, Roman

• ISBN13: 9781859843611
• ISBN10: 1859843611
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-09-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

The struggle over Elian Gonzalez is only the most publicized chapter in the ongoing rift between the two Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami. In this account of the forty-one-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is acutely reflective of his own experience. Cuban born, and commuting between the arch enemies in spite of their respective roadblocks, he tells the story of his coming of age in the Cuban diaspora, with its faded sympathies for revolution, and his continuing distaste for official Miami, the exile capital.

Author Biography

Roman de la Campa chairs the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Program on New American Studies at the State University of New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Introduction: A Tale of Two Cubas: Havana and Miami	p. 1
Prelude to Exodus	p. 22
A Peter Pan Story	p. 37
Refugees, Exiles, Diaspora	p. 60
An Impossible Commute	p. 81
Cuban--Latino Seams	p. 106
Post-Socialist Glimpses: Cuba in the 1990s	p. 123
Back Again	p. 147
Notes	p. 176
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