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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823833703321

Autore

Ortiz Ricardo L. <1961->

Titolo

Cultural erotics in Cuban America / / Ricardo L. Ortiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-9840-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

810.93529687291073

Soggetti

American literature - Cuban American authors - History and criticism

Cuban Americans in literature

Cuban Americans - Intellectual life

Cuban Americans - Languages

Cubans - Migrations

Erotica - United States

Eroticism in literature

Exiles in literature

Exiles - United States - Intellectual life

Spanish language - Influence on English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: Cuban America in Cuban English; Introduction: Diaspora and Disappearance; Part I: Bodies of, Bodies in Evidence; 1. Pleasure's Exile: Reinaldo Arenas's Last Writing; 2. Docile Bodies, Volatile Texts: Cuban-Exile Prison Writing; 3. Revolution's Other Histories: Legacies of Roberto Fernández Retamar's "Caliban"; Part Ii: From Exile to Diaspora; 4. Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Québec, and Our (New) America; 5. Café, Culpa, and Capital: Nostalgic Addictions of Cuban Exile; 6. Beyond All Cuban Counterpoints: Eduardo Machado's Floating Island Plays.

Sommario/riassunto

Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortíz addresses the question of Cuban-American diaspora and cultural identity by exploring the practices of smaller communities in such U.S. cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Highlighting various forms of cultural expression, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America traces underrepresented communities' responses to the threat of cultural disappearance in a



hegemonic U.S. culture.