Discourses of/on Nostalgia: Cuban America’s Real and Fictional Geographies
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Diaspora (2006), by Eduardo González, I couldn’t help ponder on the specificities and trajectories of Cuban diasporic writing in the United States post-1959. González reflects on cultural production “in the time of diaspora,” specifically: diasporic writers, Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, who lived and died in London; Antonio Benítez-Rojo, who lived and passed recently in Amherst, Massachusetts; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes, who still lives and writes in Cuba. This made me re-visit and re-evaluate the particularities and differences of Cuban “exilic” and “ethnic diasporic” writing in the United States, parting from the exoduses post-1959, in connection to my research on Cuban nostalgic texts and Cuban material culture. (1) These literatures grew significantly during the 1980s and 1990s and have been topic of extensive theoretical work [Hospital (1988), Rivero (1990, 2005), Pérez Firmat (1994), García (1996), Luis (1997), Alvarez-Borland (1998), Smorkaloff (1999), Quiroga (2005)]. The issues that I encountered led me to ponder about the discursive styles characterized by or in explaination of a nostalgia for Cuba or times passed. These nostalgias evolve in response to the dislocations of the historical exoduses and diasporas occuring after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
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