Politics and Romance in the Scholarship on Cuban Politics

Fernández, Damián J.

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“…Such sites or "road crossings" in Alexis' wording are inevitably exposed to specific historic forces. In the context of Cuba and its diaspora, this approach can help us to explore a new language and an aesthetic of travelling cultures and nomad identities, as exhorted by Duany (2000: 19), thus moving away from the hitherto prevailing tendency to understand the relationship between the island and the diaspora as dichotomous (see also Berg forthcoming;Duany 2007;Fernández 2004;Hernández-Reguant 2005).…”

Section: Cuba's Children Of the Revolution And The Attractions Of Cosmentioning

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Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba's Diasporic Children of the Revolution

Berg

2009

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Although cosmopolitanism used to be associated with Western, elite practices, it has in recent years been used to describe a wider array of practices by non-elite and non-Western groups. This article explores the cosmopolitanism of Cuba's "children of the revolution" living in Spain. They are those now young adults who were born in Cuba after the revolution and who were brought up to become the socialist New Man. Theirs was a world of socialist cosmopolitanism, which simultaneously was infused with commitment to a national, territorially-based political project: an independent, socialist Cuba. However, some of these New Men and New Women now embrace ideals of cosmopolitan individualism rather than the patriotic socialism with which they were inculcated as children. Yet the cultural tools that the children of the revolution make use of in their practices and narratives of cosmopolitanism paradoxically point back to revolutionary Cuba. The article argues that cosmopolitanism as a lived practice owes to experiences within the Cuban socialist-national project and is in effect a response to the ineffectiveness of this project, not necessarily a substantive opposition to it. Social capital and habitus deriving from Cuban socialism gave the children of the revolution the desire to attain cosmopolitanism as part of their life-projects. This finding suggests that the relationship between nationalism and cosmopolitanism needs further rethinking.

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Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba's Diasporic Children of the Revolution

Berg

2009

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“…However, they did not do this in a uniform way as the opening vignette suggests. This may sound like the old argument of Cuban exceptionality (for critique see Fernández 2004), but it is rather an acknowledgment of ethnographically observed practices and discourses. Different diasporic groups at different points in time draw on and define themselves relative to the idea and experience of “homeland,” for diasporas are “historical formations in process” (Werbner 2000:5).…”

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Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Berg

2009

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n Este artículo contribuye a los debates recientes en estudios de diáspora sobre la relació n entre procesos de exclusió n, experiencias de desplazamiento y memorias de país de origen existentes en la producció n de subjetividades diaspó ricas. El artículo concierne a la diáspora cubana en España, la cual consiste de aproximadamente 50,000 personas. Estas personas representan refutadas prácticas y discursos sobre origen y desplazamiento, sobre pertenecer y no pertenecer. En este artículo sostengo que la noció n de ''generació n diaspó rica'' nos puede ayudar a entender los modos contrastantes en que los cubanos habitan diáspora. Las generaciones diaspó ricas se basan en trayectorias de migració n. É stas ponen los aspectos temporales de la formació n de la diáspora en primer plano y por encima de aspectos espaciales. Sostengo que para las dos generaciones más recientes de esta diáspora, prácticas y discursos de exclusió n tanto en el país de origen como en el lugar de la diáspora igual que entre la primera generació n de la diáspora han contribuido en la producció n de subjetividades desterritorializadas. This article is a contribution to recent debates within diaspora studies of the relationship between processes of exclusion, experiences of displacement, and memories of homeland in the production of diasporic subjectivities. It concerns the Cuban diaspora in Spain, consisting of approximately 50,000 people who represent contesting practices and discourses of home and away, belonging and not-belonging. In the article I argue that to understand diasporic Cubans' contrastive modes of inhabiting Diaspora, the notion of ''diasporic generations'' is helpful. Diasporic generations are based on trajectories of migration, thus foregrounding the temporal aspects of Diaspora formation over spatial aspects. I argue that among the two most recent generations of this Diaspora, practices and discourses of exclusion in both homeland and diasporic location as well as among the first generation of the diaspora have led to the production of deterritorialized subjectivities.

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“…Damian Fernández (2004) has noted that over the last decade there has been a move from Cubanology to Cuban Studies. He identifies as Cubanology a large body of scholarship produced both in the United States and Cuba during the second half of the 20th century mostly in the social sciences, and whose main premise is that of Cuban exceptionalism.…”

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Cuba's Alternative Geographies

Hernández-Reguant

2008

Journal of Latin American Anthropology

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Politics and Romance in the Scholarship on Cuban Politics

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Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba's Diasporic Children of the Revolution

Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba's Diasporic Children of the Revolution

Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Cuba's Alternative Geographies

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