Keywords
Transculturation
Acculturation
Exile
Diaspora
Cristina García
Daína Chaviano
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Abstract
Although hybridity is the essence of Cuban-ness, Cuban identity discourses marginalized and even excluded the Asian component, perpetuating Said’s vision of Orientalism. However, during the last decades, some literary works have been re-thinking such position, criticizing (self)orientalism and binary oppositions through their narratives, and claiming to be based on integration and inclusion. This article questions whether Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting and Daína Chaviano’s La isla de los amores infinitos literary works offer such new perspective and construct Cuban identity including the Asian component as part of the discourse, while exploring their process of exile and acculturation.
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