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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781935703321

Autore

Berg Mette Louise <1969->

Titolo

Diasporic generations : memory, politics and nation among Cubans in Spain / / Mette Louise Berg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011

ISBN

1-283-32647-7

9786613326478

0-85745-245-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 213 pages)

Collana

New Directions in Anthropology

Disciplina

305.868/7291046

Soggetti

Cubans - Spain - Politics and government

Cubans - Migrations

Cubans - Spain - Social conditions

Immigrants - Spain - Social conditions

Cubans - Spain - Ethnic identity

Transnationalism

Collective memory - Spain

Cuba Relations Spain

Spain Relations Cuba

Spain Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.189-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction - The Changing Contours of a Contested Island; Chapter 1 - Cuba, Ethnography and the Politics of Fieldwork; Chapter 2 - Diasporic Generations; Chapter 3 - The Exiles; Chapter 4 - The Children of the Revolution; Chapter 5 - The Migrants; Chapter 6 - Gender, Diasporic and the Body; Conclusion - The Memory of Politics and the Politics of Memory; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora - a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism - are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has had extraordinary success in putting



its case high on the US political agenda and in capturing world media attention, but in the process the multiplicity of experiences within the diaspora has been overshadowed. This book gives voice to diasporic Cubans living in Spain, the former colonial ruler of Cuba. By focusing on their lived experiences of displace