Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This final degree project focuses on Cuban-American literature and its main features, in which culture and traditions have a fundamental role, and how all these elements are portrayed in the novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992), by Cristina Garcia.In order to achieve this objective I have carried out an investigation based on documents and books which deal with Latino and Cuban literature, Cuban culture and traditions, the experience of the exile in general and, particularly, of the Cuban-American one.The project is organized in four parts, addressing the following topics: a socio-historical introduction of the novel, contextualizing it according to the age it belongs and what was happening at that time; an explanation of the main aspects of Latino culture; an introduction to the author, her life, works, and the novel in which the project is based; an analysis of the novel according to family relationships, the question of the exile and sense of belonging, how it is to live in America and how this has changed some characters and a portrayal of Cuban culture and traditions in the novel.The work concludes that Dreaming in Cuban is a clear and perfect example of Cuban culture, traditions, exile, adaptation to a new foreign country and all the consequences that this involves: it is a very accurate portrayal of Cuban exile to the United States since the 1960s.Throughout my analysis I have tried to demonstrate that, what was explained in the sociohistorical introduction is exemplified in the novel, with the study of each important part of Cuban-American culture and traditions.
Author: Natalia Díaz Regalado
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2234854812