Cuba and the Tempest Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora

Name: Cuba and the Tempest Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780807856833

ISBN-10: 0807856835

ISBN-13: 9780807856833

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eduardo Gonzï¿½lez, Eduardo Gonzï¿½lez

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In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Eduardo Gonzalez teaches literature and cinema at The Johns Hopkins University. He is author of three other books, including The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction.