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Cuba on my mind : journeys to a severed nation / Román de la Campa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De la Campa, Román.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De la Campa, Román.
- Cuban Americans--Biography.
- Cuban Americans.
- Politics and government.
- Cuban Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Exiles.
- Florida--Miami.
- United States.
- Exiles--United States--Biography.
- United States--Relations--Cuba.
- Relations.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Relations--United States.
- Cuban Americans--Florida--Miami--Politics and government.
- Exiles--Political activity--Florida--Miami.
- Exiles--Political activity.
- Cuba--Social conditions--1959-1990.
- Social conditions.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : VERSO, 2001.
- Summary:
- The struggle over Elian Gonzalez is only the most publicized chapter in the ongoing rift between the two Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami. In this moving personal account of the forty-one-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is acutely reflective of his own experience. Cuban born, and commuting between the arch enemies in spite of their respective roadblocks, he tells the story of his coming of age in the Cuban diaspora, with its faded sympathies for revolution, and his continuing distaste for official Miami, the exile capital.
- The three migration waves of Cubans to the United States provide a historical backdrop for the author's story. Through these, de la Campa's memoir offers a hard look at his two Cubas, their obsessive attempts to deny the other, their respective use of migration as a political card, and their nationalist passions. Above all it shows how globalization and post-socialism are shaping a Cuban national split, with obvious consequences, not only for Havana, but also for the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Cubas: Havana and Miami 1
- 1 Prelude to Exodus 22
- 2 A Peter Pan Story 37
- 3 Refugees, Exiles, Diaspora 60
- 4 An Impossible Commute 81
- 5 Cuban
- Latino Seams 106
- 6 Post-Socialist Glimpses: Cuba in the 1990s 123
- 7 Back Again 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1859847900
- OCLC:
- 45714743
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