Cuba
Idea of a Nation Displaced
Published on 5. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-0-7914-7200-2 (ISBN)
Description
Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"The multidisciplinary approaches ... will appeal to a variety of readers interested in the rich cultural production by Cuban exiles everywhere." - CHOICE"This book is outstanding: it addresses Cuban diaspora from multiple locations; it goes beyond the usual reductionist perspectives; and it reflects the community's diversity by contesting prevalent media, scholarly, and stereotypical representations." - Delia Poey, author of Latino American Literature in the Classroom: The Politics of Transformation
"Multiple voices reflect on Cubania (Cubanness), more often than not from a postmodern transcultural perspective. As a result, the book acquires a dynamic, collage effect, impacting the reader intellectually as well as emotionally." - Jorge Febles, University of North Florida
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-7200-2 (9780791472002)
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02/2012
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Person
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera is Professor of Literature and Director of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is the author of Pearl of the Antilles and the editor of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora.
Content
Acknowledgments
"Hablando en Diasporas" / "Speaking in Diasporas"
Lourdes Gil
Introduction
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
"Exilio es olvido" / "Exile Is a Forgetting"
Pablo Medina
Part I. We Are Here, There, and Everywhere, A Nation Displaced
"Transplantado" / "Transplanted"
Felipe Lazaro
1. Memory, Politics, and Diaspora: Cubans in Spain
Mette Louise Berg
2. Cuban Exiles in France
William Navarrete
3. Puerto Rican Cubanness: Reconfiguring Caribbean Imaginaries
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
4. The Cuban Population of the United States: An Introduction
Maria Cristina Garcia
5. Different Diasporas: Cubans in Venezuela, 1959-1998
Holly Ackerman
6. "Hebrew with a Cuban Accent": Jewbans in the Diaspora
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez
7. In Search of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: Cuban Chinese in New York City
Lok Chun Debra Siu
8. "We All Lived Here Together": The Hidden Topic of Race between White and Black Cubans in Tampa
Susan D. Greenbaum and Linda M. Callejas
Part II. Identities in Motion
"El rostro de una nacion" / "The Face of a Nation"
Iraida Iturralde
9. Identity and Diaspora: Cuban Culture at the Crossroads
Adriana Mendez Rodenas
10. Networks, Remittances, and Family Restaurants: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective
Jorge Duany
11. The Politics of Mis-ReMembering: History, Imagination and the Recovery of the "Lost Generation"
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
12. In Two or More (Dis)Places: Articulating a Marginal Experience of the Cuban Diaspora
Eliana Rivero
13. A Cuban-Chinese Familia
Emily Lo
14. In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon
Interview by Iraida Iturralde
Part III. The Space between Memory and History: Cultural Transformation in the Diaspora "Book of Heather"
Maya Islas
15. Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature
Rafael Rojas
16. "Fertile Multiplicities": Zoe Valdes and the Writers of the '90s Generation
Isabel Alvarez Borland
17. "A Homecoming without a Home": Recent U.S. Cuban Writing of Diaspora
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
18. "The Dream of Paradise": Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature
Francisco Soto
19. "Defying Liminality": The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the Diaspora
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
Appendix A: List of Artists
Appendix B: Cafe Cubano a La Grisel
20. Framing the Cuban Diaspora: Representation and Dialogue in Recent Filmic Productions
Raul Rubio
21. Music and Nation
Antonio Benitez-Rojo
22. The Inheritance
Carlos Victoria
Epilogue
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
"Cruza Fronteras"
Virgil Suarez
Contributors
Index
"Hablando en Diasporas" / "Speaking in Diasporas"
Lourdes Gil
Introduction
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
"Exilio es olvido" / "Exile Is a Forgetting"
Pablo Medina
Part I. We Are Here, There, and Everywhere, A Nation Displaced
"Transplantado" / "Transplanted"
Felipe Lazaro
1. Memory, Politics, and Diaspora: Cubans in Spain
Mette Louise Berg
2. Cuban Exiles in France
William Navarrete
3. Puerto Rican Cubanness: Reconfiguring Caribbean Imaginaries
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
4. The Cuban Population of the United States: An Introduction
Maria Cristina Garcia
5. Different Diasporas: Cubans in Venezuela, 1959-1998
Holly Ackerman
6. "Hebrew with a Cuban Accent": Jewbans in the Diaspora
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez
7. In Search of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: Cuban Chinese in New York City
Lok Chun Debra Siu
8. "We All Lived Here Together": The Hidden Topic of Race between White and Black Cubans in Tampa
Susan D. Greenbaum and Linda M. Callejas
Part II. Identities in Motion
"El rostro de una nacion" / "The Face of a Nation"
Iraida Iturralde
9. Identity and Diaspora: Cuban Culture at the Crossroads
Adriana Mendez Rodenas
10. Networks, Remittances, and Family Restaurants: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective
Jorge Duany
11. The Politics of Mis-ReMembering: History, Imagination and the Recovery of the "Lost Generation"
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
12. In Two or More (Dis)Places: Articulating a Marginal Experience of the Cuban Diaspora
Eliana Rivero
13. A Cuban-Chinese Familia
Emily Lo
14. In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon
Interview by Iraida Iturralde
Part III. The Space between Memory and History: Cultural Transformation in the Diaspora "Book of Heather"
Maya Islas
15. Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature
Rafael Rojas
16. "Fertile Multiplicities": Zoe Valdes and the Writers of the '90s Generation
Isabel Alvarez Borland
17. "A Homecoming without a Home": Recent U.S. Cuban Writing of Diaspora
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
18. "The Dream of Paradise": Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature
Francisco Soto
19. "Defying Liminality": The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the Diaspora
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
Appendix A: List of Artists
Appendix B: Cafe Cubano a La Grisel
20. Framing the Cuban Diaspora: Representation and Dialogue in Recent Filmic Productions
Raul Rubio
21. Music and Nation
Antonio Benitez-Rojo
22. The Inheritance
Carlos Victoria
Epilogue
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
"Cruza Fronteras"
Virgil Suarez
Contributors
Index