The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

ISBN 10: 0521327474 / ISBN 13: 9780521327473

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1989

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ambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature I. Volume is bound in black cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Inscription by Cuban-American scholar and writer Gustavo Perez Firmat (b. 1949) appears on front flyleaf and reads "Para Jose, / who knows my condition / (our condition?), / con la amistad incondicional de, / Gustavo." viii/185 pages. "The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the "criollistas" has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish-American literature. This indebtedness does not imply subservience; rather, the New Worlds cultural and literary autonomy lies in the distinctive ways in which it assimilated its cultural inheritance. Professor Perez Firmat explores this process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings of both literary and non-literary works by Juan Marinello, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolas Guillen, Alejo Carpentier and others, dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nations history. Using a critical vocabulary derived from these works, he argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that "cubania" emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521327474
• ISBN 13: 9780521327473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the criollistas has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish-American literature. This indebtedness does not imply subservience; rather, the New World's cultural and literary autonomy lies in the distinctive ways in which it assimilated its cultural inheritance. Professor Pérez Firmat explores this process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings of both literary and non-literary works by Juan Marinello, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolds Guillén, Alejo Carpentier and others, dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. Using a critical vocabulary derived from these works, he argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubanía emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.

Book Description

Firmat explores the process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. He argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubanía emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.