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42 - Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora

from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2024

By
Dunja Fehimović  and
Zaira Zarza
Edited by
Vicky Unruh  and
Jacqueline Loss
Vicky Unruh
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

This chapter explores approaches to the theme of diaspora in twenty-first-century Cuban film, demonstrating how archipelagic thinking can help elucidate the transnational connections, translations, and collaborations constituting Cuban cinema and that entail a difficult reckoning with geographical or temporal limits for structuring the analysis of literary-cultural production. The chapter dissects this landscape using four categories – outgoing journeys, returning diasporas, on-island films about migration, and representations of exile from inside Cuba – in an analysis of Juan Pablo Daranas’s Ángela (2018), Sebastián and Rodrigo Barriuso’s 2018 Un traductor [A Translator], Armando Capó’s Agosto (2019), and José Luis Aparicio’s 2021 Sueños al pairo [Dreams Adrift].

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Diaspora and twenty-first-century Cuban FilmJuan Pablo Daranas (1991–)Sebastián Barriuso (1984–)Rodrigo Barriuso (1988–)Armando Capó (1979–)José Luis Aparicio (1994–)“accented cinemas”physical and imaginative displacementsthe cinema of “Greater Cuba”FILA20
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The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 656 - 672
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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