Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced

by O'reilly Herrera, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780791472002
• ISBN10: 0791472000
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780791479650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

In Cuba, internationally renowned artists, philosophers, and writers reflect on the idea of a nation displaced. Featuring contributions from Isabel Alvarez Borland, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Maria Cristina Garcia, 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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
"Hablando en Diasporas"/"Speaking in Diasporas"	p. 1
Introduction	p. 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 Spain	p. 15
Cuban Exiles in France	p. 35
Puerto Rican Cubanness: Reconfiguring Caribbean Imaginaries	p. 47
The Cuban Population of the United States: An Introduction	p. 75
Different Diasporas: Cubans in Venezuela, 1959-1998	p. 90
"Hebrew with a Cuban Accent": Jewbans in the Diaspora	p. 107
In Search of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: Cuban Chinese in New York City	p. 123
"We All Lived Here Together": The Hidden Topic of Race between White and Black Cubans in Tampa	p. 132
Identities in Motion
"El rostro de una nacion"/"The Face of a Natio"	p. 141
Identity and Diaspora: Cuban Culture at the Crossroads	p. 143
Networks, Remittances, and Family Restaurants: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective	p. 161
The Politics of Mis-ReMembering: History, Imagination and the Recovery of the Lost Generation	p. 176
In Two or More (Dis) Places: Articulating a Marginal Experience of the Cuban Diaspora	p. 194
A Cuban-Chinese Familia	p. 215
In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon	p. 223
The Space Between History and Memory: Cultural Transformation in Diaspora
"Book of Heather"	p. 235
Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature	p. 237
"Fertile Multiplicities": Zoe Valdes and the Writers of the '90s Generation	p. 253
"A Homecoming without a Home": Recent U.S. Cuban Writing of Diaspora	p. 267
"The Dream of Paradise": Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature	p. 285
"Defying Liminality": The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the Diaspora	p. 301
List of Artists	p. 311
Cafe Cubano a La Grisel	p. 313
Framing the Cuban Diaspora: Representation and Dialogue in Recent Filmic Productions	p. 314
Music and Nation	p. 328
The Inheritance	p. 341
Epilogue	p. 345
"Cruza Fronteras"	p. 345
Contributors	p. 347
Index	p. 355
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