Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791472000 ISBN 13: 9780791472002

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791472000
• ISBN 13: 9780791472002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Oreilly Herrera Andrea