The Travels of Fiction in the Cuban Diaspora

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27 - The Travels of Fiction in the Cuban Diaspora

from Part IV - The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

Rafael Rojas

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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This chapter investigates the tensions between the so-called cosmopolitan and national realms in works of several writers who departed the island at various points after Cuba’s 1959 revolution, spending much of their subsequent lives in the diaspora in Mexico, Spain, Paris, or the US. Some of these writers had impactful careers in Cuban publications and institutions prior to their departure. Through close readings of the fiction of Nivaria Tejera, Julieta Campos, Severo Sarduy, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Jesús Díaz, and Eliseo Alberto, the chapter unpacks the heterogenous travelers’ gazes and experiences that frame Cuban history, literature, and identity at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

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postrevolutionary Cuban fiction of the diaspora the “cosmopolitan” and the “national” in Cuban diasporic fiction Nivaria Tejera (1929–2016)Julieta Campos (1932–2007)Severo Sarduy (1937–1993)Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931–2005)Jesús Díaz (1941–2002)Eliseo Alberto (1951–2011)

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 424 - 437

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168359.028 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2024

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