Political Families: Narration, Memory and Healing in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban

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Published: Oct 4, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2020.0.519-526
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Narration, Memory, Female Identity Prose, Dislocation, Politics and the Novel

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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-142X

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The paper interprets Cristina García’s novel Dreaming in Cuban against the backdrop of contemporary multicultural identity prose by women. Against expectations about the possibility of healing and belonging in the feminine diasporic text, the novel problematizes the possibility and costs of healing, reconnecting, and reconciliation. The text represents how profoundly political and family history are interconnected on an individual level, and how the intersection of family, politics, and individual limits the scope of change for the protagonist.    

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Kovács, Ágnes Z. (2020). Political Families: Narration, Memory and Healing in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban. Acta Hispanica, (II), 519–526. https://doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2020.0.519-526
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No. II (2020): ACTA HISPANICA SUPPLEMENTUM. Latin America and the World: Spaces of Encounters and Collaboration
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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, University of Szeged

Ágnes Zsófia Kovács is associate professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests include late 19th-century proto-modern fiction, conversions of literary modernism, popular fiction genres, contemporary multicultural American fiction, theories of narrative, and methods of American Studies. Her current research into travel writing involves re-mapping travel texts by Edith Wharton. She has published two books, The Function of the Imagination in the Writings of Henry James (Mellen, 2006) and Literature in Context (Jate Press, 2010), and she has co-edited Space, Gender and the Gaze (Cambridge Scholars, 2017). 

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