Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
37 - Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter analyzes first-hand, multifaceted accounts within poetry and literary and documentary narratives that portray the experiences of the encounters between Cuba and Angola generated by Fidel Castro’s mobilization of Cubans to Angola in the mid-1970s, the nation’s most significant international mission. In the early years of the encounter, the chapter demonstrates, this body of work highlighted historical parallels of liberation from colonialism and celebrations of Cuban sacrifices but also revealed linguistic and cultural misunderstanding and the reproduction of stereotypes of Africa and Africans. Work on the subject published in the late twentieth century and first two decades of the twenty-first, by contrast, generally manifested the war’s after-effects, highlighting isolation, miscommunication, and uncertainty.
Keywords
literary and documentary representations of Cuba–Angola encountersparallels of anticolonial liberationcelebrations of Cuban sacrifice in AngolaCuban–Angolan linguistic and cultural misunderstandingCuban reproduction of Africa and African stereotypesisolation and miscommunication as after-effects of the Angolan war
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- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 580 - 593Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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