She is author of La autobiografía hispana contemporánea en los Estados Unidos: a través del caleidoscopio (2001) and co-author of Cofre literario: Iniciación a la literatura hispánica (2003). Her recent publications include a critical edition of Ena Lucía Portela’s novel Cien botellas en una pared (2010) and an anthology of Portela’s short stories El Viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos (2009). Iraida López (Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY) is Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Ramapo College. His article, “Aquí Está Alvarez Guedes: Cuban Choteo and the Politics of Play,” published in Latino Studies, won the 2012 Article Award from the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. His current book project, The Politics of Pleasure and Play in Latino Literature and Performance, examines how “play” creates modes of discourse that provide critical perspectives of the dominant culture while simultaneously forging community and maintaining transnational ties through a pleasurable narrative economy. His research and teaching interests include transnational Latino/a literatures and cultures, humor theory, performance studies, and the Cuban diaspora. While reviewing Cuba and the Tempest: Literature. In a city that is rapidly undergoing profound generational turnover, what can an event that sells itself as a journey to the nostalgic past tell us about the future of Cuban Miami?Īlbert Laguna is Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies at Yale University. Discourses of/on Nostalgia: Cuban Americas Real and Fictional Geographies. Vendors sell Cuban themed items, memorabilia, art galleries. But this pleasure-driven logic is in stark contrast to prevailing representations of Cuban Miami as dominated by more negative affective dispositions – the melancholia of exile coupled with rabid anti-Castro fervor. CubaNostalgia is a twoday event showcasing Cuban life, customs and heritage through exhibits. Often understood as ambivalent and “bitter sweet”, the celebratory tone of the fair reconfigures nostalgia as pure pleasure.
CUBA NOSTALGIA SERIES
Miamis most culture-defining, groundbreaking TV series is coming back as a stage show. Businesses dedicated to selling objects like yearbooks, magazines, phone books, and casino chips – all produced before 1959 – dot the fairgrounds while Benny Moré boleros play. Qu Pasa, USA returns Miamis Nostalgia for Cuban Nostalgia.
The festival has also hosted a database to reconnect those who were trafficked from Cuba as children during Operation Peter. For the past 14 years, the Cuba Nostalgia Fair in Miami has celebrated pre-Castro Cuba through a combination of cultural spectacle and capitalist consumption. Cuba Nostalgia is an annual three-day festival in Little Havana, a neighbourhood in Miami, Florida, where Cuban-Americans celebrate Cuba under the Batista dictatorship before it was liberated by the Castro.
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