The Cuban Condition

Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature

By:

Gustavo Perez Firmat

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Latin American & Iberian Literature

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The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the criollistas has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish American literature. This indebtedness does not imply subservience; rather, the New World's cultural and literary autonomy lies in the distinctive ways in which it assimilated its cultural inheritance. Professor Perez Firmat explores this process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings of both literary and non-literary works by Juan Marinello, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolds Guillen, Alejo Carpentier and others, dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. Using a critical vocabulary derived from these works, he argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubania emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.

Release date Australia

June 15th, 1989

Author

Gustavo Perez Firmat

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

196

Series

Cambridge Studies in Latin American & Iberian Literature

Dimensions

153x234x19

ISBN-13

9780521327473

Product ID

2356896

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