Diasporic generations : memory, politics, and nation among Cubans in Spain /: memory, politics, and nation among Cubans in Spain. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mette Louise Berg.
• Other Names: Berg, Mette Louise, 1969-
• Contents: Introduction: The Changing Contours of a Contested Island Writing Cuba and Its Diaspora Cubans in Spain Post-colonial Subjects and Metropolitan Romance: Racialising Cubanness Encounters in Cádiz Outline of the Book Chapter 1. Ethnography and the Politics of Fieldwork Doing Research in a Politicised Field Chapter 2. Diasporic Generations Conceptualising Generation Cuba's Contested Past Decolonisation, Independence and Spanish Migration to Cuba From Republic to Revolution The Creation of a Cuban Diaspora post-1959 Emigration from Cuba after 1959 Conclusion Chapter 3. The Exiles: Bitterness and Nostalgia for a Lost Havana The Centro Cubano, the Círculo Católico and the Peña: Geographies of Longing Exilic Time-Spaces and Longing for Cuba Isabel and the Politicisation of Everyday Life Fractured Families: Marianito Ricardo: Conflicts Between New and Old Cuba Sergio: 'A Right-wing Dictatorship is not the Same as a Left-wing Dictatorship' Conclusion Chapter 4. The Children of the Revolution: Creating a Post-Cuban Space Cuba's Hombre Nuevo Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana On Labelling and Name Calling Becaming and Feeling like a 'Traidor': Iván and Maida Counter-Discourses of Cosmopolitanism Conclusion Chapter 5. The Migrants: Minimal Homelands Marriage Migration Commodified Cubanness Lucy: 'In Spain I Have More Freedom' César and the Elusive Abundance of 'El Capitalismo' Oscar: 'I Had to Start from Zero' Puente Familiar con Cuba: a New Politics of Memory and Homeland Mirta and the Ambiguities of Distance Conclusion Chapter 6. Gender, Diaspora, and the Body Time-Spaces, Memory and Forgetting The 'Pain of Cuba': Emotional Landscapes of Belonging Temporal and Spatial Alienation The 'Fluids of Destiny:' Beyond Trench Thinking Gender Life-stages and life-crises Identity Discourses Chapter 7. The Memory of Politics and the Politics of Memory Glossary of Spanish words; References cited; Notes
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
• Subjects: 305.868/7291046; Cubans -- Spain -- Politics and government; Cubans -- Migrations; Cubans -- Spain -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Spain -- Social conditions; Cubans -- Spain -- Ethnic identity; Transnationalism; Collective memory -- Spain; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; Cuba -- Relations -- Spain; Spain -- Relations -- Cuba; Spain -- Ethnic relations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857452467; 0857452460
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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