Cuba : Idea of a Nation Displaced
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| Title: | Cuba : Idea of a Nation Displaced |
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| 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 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. |
| Authors: | Andrea O'Reilly Herrera |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Exiles--Cuba |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780791471999 9780791472002 9780791479650 |
