Author: Gustavo Pérez FirmatPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521327474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Firmat explores the process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. He argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubanía emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.
