Impossible Returns
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Cristina Garcia
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Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Iraida Lopez
Jesus Diaz
Leonardo Padura
Lopez
Maria Brito
memoirs
Nancy Alonso
Repatriation
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Ruth Behar
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Product details
- ISBN 9780813061030
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since travel restrictions from the United States to Cuba began to ease, thousands of Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans have been able to reunite with family and visit their homeland. Yet the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied.
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by the one-and-a-half generation - those who left Cuba as children or adolescents - and the ways in which the desire for homecoming is manifested both abroad and inside Cuba. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these works feature a physical arrival in Cuba while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience through fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. Impossible Returns ends by looking at how Cubans still living on the island depict returning émigrés in their own narratives, which have evolved from exclusionary to accommodating.
Through a critical reading of works by artists and writers like María Brito, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Mendieta, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, and Achy Obejas, López highlights the affective ties as well as the tensions underlying the relationship between émigrés and their native country.
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by the one-and-a-half generation - those who left Cuba as children or adolescents - and the ways in which the desire for homecoming is manifested both abroad and inside Cuba. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these works feature a physical arrival in Cuba while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience through fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. Impossible Returns ends by looking at how Cubans still living on the island depict returning émigrés in their own narratives, which have evolved from exclusionary to accommodating.
Through a critical reading of works by artists and writers like María Brito, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Mendieta, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, and Achy Obejas, López highlights the affective ties as well as the tensions underlying the relationship between émigrés and their native country.
Iraida H. López is professor of Spanish and Latino/a and Latin American studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.
