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Telling it to the Dead: Borderless Communication and Scars of Trauma in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban
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Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992) is preoccupied with the three key stages in the title of this volume: "healing, working through, and/or staying in trauma".Abstract:
Summary Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992) is preoccupied with the three key stages in the title of this volume: “healing, working through, and/or staying in trauma”. This article contextualises the novel by referring to the life history of the character Lourdes Puente and the trauma of her exile and exodus from Cuba. A scar on her stomach inscribes a rape, a miscarriage and her failed attachment to her mother Celia. It is suggested that the scar constitutes a visible representation of her trauma designed to prevent her experiences from remaining permanently repressed and unclaimed. Only when Lourdes starts a series of conversations with her deceased father is she able to relate to the wound/scar and to pose questions about her trauma. This article addresses the traumatically marked literary language used to depict Lourdes's experiential world, and discusses how death, or rather the company of her dead father, turns into a safe space in which she confronts her traumatic past and heals hersel...read more
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Political families : narration, memory and healing in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban against the backdrop of contemporary multicultural identity prose by women, and present the possibility and costs of healing, reconnecting, and reconciliation.
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Writing Conflict to End Conflict: Reconciliatory Writing in Cristina García’s "Dreaming in Cuban," "The Agüero Sisters," and "King of Cuba"
TL;DR: The authors argue that these novels take on the task of lessening polarizations with the aspiration of furthering reconciliation processes through concentrating on the divisiveness between families and politics within the Cuban communities, focusing on the island Cubans and the US Cuban diaspora.
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Pilar's Painting of the Statue of Liberty: Empowering Diverse Women with Punk Culture in DREAMING IN CUBAN
TL;DR: After the Cuban-American author Cristina Garcia published Dreaming in Cuban in 1992, her first novel received substantial literary critical attention as discussed by the authors, which was later published in The Norton Anthology of Latin American Literature.
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Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
TL;DR: In Unclaimed Experience as discussed by the authors, Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century, both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it, we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference.
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Tense Past : Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
Paul Antze,Michael Lambek +1 more
TL;DR: Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust as discussed by the authors.
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Dreaming in Cuban
TL;DR: In this article, the reader is introduced to four strong-willed women who are divided by by conflicting political loyalties and bound together by their complicated love for one another.