Cuba on my Mind examines the dual Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami to offer an insight on the two Cubas: their obsessive attempts to deny the other, their uses of migration as a political card, and their nationalistic passions.
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Cuba on My Mind is written out of an engagement with present complexities that is at once emphatic and critical, connected and removed, knowing and bewildered.
(William Keach - Raritan Review )In the end it's obvious de la Campa is not of Miami or Cuba but from somewhere in between. This is the most profound discovery in the book and a revelation sure to have a wide resonance among others in the same predicament.
(The Miami Herald )…a good read and highly recommended for those who wish to have an insider's view into the social and political conditions of the respective nations.
(Multicultural Review ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.About the Author
Román de la Campa chairs the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Program on New American Studies at the State University of New York. His recent books include Latin Americanism, Late Imperial Culture, and America Latina y sus comunidades discursivas.
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This review is from: Cuba On My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation (Hardcover)
A very realistic story of the saga of the Cuban Nation split in two! The frustation of realizing that the main obstacle for peace remains the narrow minds of the "totalitarian style folks" that mirror each other's destrucive behavior within Cuba and in exile. Must be wait until the old generation passes on, or are we allowing them to contaminate this generation with their Castro-centric hatred??? For the sake of our children, the buck must stop with us. Let's have compassion and reconstruction. What we do today will affect the future generations.
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Cuba stands today as the last diehard socialist state, caught in an anachronistic Cold War impasse between Fidel Castro and the entrenched political representatives of the Cuban diaspora in Miami. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exile nation, migration waves, exile community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin American, Peter Pan, New York, Catholic Church, Cuban Americans, Cold War, Puerto Rican, Father Walsh, Little Havana, Third World, Bay of Pigs, Eastern Europe, Fidel Castro, Fort Lauderdale, Marist Brothers, Sioux City, Florida Military Academy, Santa Cruz, Soviet Union, African Americans, Andy Garcia, Assumption Academy, Gloria Estefan, Nueva Trova New!
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Cuba stands today as the last diehard socialist state, caught in an anachronistic Cold War impasse between Fidel Castro and the entrenched political representatives of the Cuban diaspora in Miami. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exile nation, migration waves, exile community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin American, Peter Pan, New York, Catholic Church, Cuban Americans, Cold War, Puerto Rican, Father Walsh, Little Havana, Third World, Bay of Pigs, Eastern Europe, Fidel Castro, Fort Lauderdale, Marist Brothers, Sioux City, Florida Military Academy, Santa Cruz, Soviet Union, African Americans, Andy Garcia, Assumption Academy, Gloria Estefan, Nueva Trova New!
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- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia on 4 pages
- Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children by Yvonne M. Conde on page 46, page 53, and Back Matter
- Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante on page 30, and Back Matter
- Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez on page 72, and Back Matter
- Memories of Underdevelopment by Edmundo Desnoes on page 101, and Back Matter
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- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers) by Aviva Chomsky in Back Matter
- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers) by Aviva Chomsky in Back Matter
- Mambo Peligroso: A Novel by Patricia Chao in Back Matter
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