El ensayo examina tres de las novelas más importantes de la escritora cubana Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta (1902-1975) El triunfo de la débil presa (1925), La vida manda (1928), y Sonata interrumpida (1940). El análisis parte de la tesis de que estas obras son un reto a la imagen de la naciente nación cubana que desde los primeros momentos se basó en la idea de la familia heterosexual como la unidad social y económica central de la sociedad. Su reto abrió las puertas en Cuba desde la literatura para formular un ideal de la nación cubana que incluyese una pluralidad de género. Dado que el camino hacia ese ideal ha sido lento, tortuoso, e incompleto aun, el examen de la obra de esta autora pionera, silenciada en la Cuba revolucionaria hasta muy recientemente, tiene importancia crucial para reivindicar un pasado que puede dar más raíces a un futuro inclusivo.
This essay scrutinizes the 2015 debut novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, written by Cuban American writer Jennine Capó Crucet. Through the methodology of textual analysis, it aims to critically examine and demonstrate how this novel center on the process of shaping and re-shaping one’s constructed identity in its intersections with a complex web of traditions, history, immigration, politics, power struggles, place and displacement, socio economic and class determinants. Guided by J. Butler and J. Blocker’s ideas on performativity, the essay posits that Cuban “exiles” occupy their exile “as a discursive position” to create and stage an identity. It examines the intersectional performativity of being Cuban in the United States, and the power/identitarian struggles of claiming Cubanness, as presented by Capó Crucet in her excellent first novel.
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