Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
14
result(s) for
"Cuban Americans Intellectual life."
Sort by:
Unbecoming Blackness
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.Lopez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O'Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Romulo Lachatanere, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an unbecoming relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
eBook
Cuban-American literature and art : negotiating identities
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.
eBook
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortíz addresses the question of Cuban-American diaspora and cultural identity by exploring the practices of smaller communities in such U.S. cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Highlighting various forms of cultural expression, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America traces underrepresented communities's responses to the threat of cultural disappearance in a hegemonic U.S. culture._x000B_
eBook
Cuba and Puerto Rico
The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their
diasporas
This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba
and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary
perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the
interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories
such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced
and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and
their diasporas.
Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on
Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and
sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States.
The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation
of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with
sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely
intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food,
musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss
literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the
aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the
representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts
of migration.
Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been
linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently,
Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach
to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of
diasporic communities and continuities.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
eBook
Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel
Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel documents a body of emergent US Cuban literature published in Spanish and English beyond the scope and historicity of exile. Focusing on the work of Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, and Antonio Benítez Rojo, the book proposes that, rather than reinforce US Cuban exile ethnic identity developed between 1960 and the 1980s, or demonstrate a tendency toward cultural assimilation (\"Americanization\") over three generations of writers, the discussed historical novels incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography. Published before the recent apertura between the US and Cuban governments, these post-exile novels anticipate themes of displacement, migration, and social marginalization as common, rather than exceptional, features of modern (and historical) life, as well as such other current (and historical) topics as gender construction and performance, figurations of race, the commoditization of culture, and urban poverty. The post-exile historical novel points to a future for US Cuban narrative and historiography, in part by investigating and featuring dissonances hidden or unacknowledged in previous Cuban exile historical fiction. The literature studied in this book further reinforces a view of two-way migration between Cuba and the United States as a normal phenomenon predating 1959, and, at the same time, as a likely shape of things to come.
eBook
Latino fiction and the modernist imagination : literature of the borderlands
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection of complicated novels and stories.
eBook
Decolonizing Schomburg
Decolonizing our gaze of Arturo Schomburg in the twenty-first century involves acknowledging and refining our transnational framing of his contributions to the African diaspora's intellectual history, especially in light of his pan-Caribbean life experiences, projects, and collaborations. This essay proposes we explore Schomburg's legacy as a figure whose ideas inform contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean American philosophy, whose activities in the 1930s in some crucial ways pivot around the Cuban intellectual scene of the era, and whose work poses an urgent challenge to transcend the usual conceptual silos intrinsic to teaching and research in American studies.
Journal Article
Literary culture in Cuba
Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture.
eBook