This dissertation explores the various discursive and representational strategies that Cuban American artists create to reproduce the issue of displacement and deterritorialization among the diasporic communities in the United States. Female writers such as Achy Obejas and her novel Memory Mambo, Loving Che by Ana Menendez and Alina Troyano and her play Leche de Amnesia reconstruct multiple connections between the Caribbean and specifically Cuba and United States. Such connections go beyond national boundaries to become a transnational imaginary configured under the ideas of multiculturalism and hybridity These writers redefine traditional conceptions of identity, gender, culture and representation by opening a discursive space for themselves within hegemonic discourses. Through this process they move from politics of identity to politics of representation. These topics are examined from a Cultural Studies standpoint giving special interest to issues related to gender studies and performance. / A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in
Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2009. / March 5, 2008. / Cuban-American, Transnational Communities / Includes bibliographical references. / Delia Poey, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mathew Childs, Outside Committee Member; Santa Arias, Committee Member; Roberto G. Fernández, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Tudares, Mariangelina, 1975- (authoraut), Poey, Delia (professor directing dissertation), Childs, Mathew (outside committee member), Arias, Santa (committee member), Fernández, Roberto G. (committee member), Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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