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T1 Writing Conflict to End Conflict: Reconciliatory Writing in Cristina García’s "Dreaming in Cuban", "The Agüero Sisters" and "King of  Cuba"
A1 Pettersson, Inger
K1 Cristina García
K1 Reconciliatory writing
K1 Cuban fiction
K1 Translation of culture
K1 Humanidades
K1 Humanities
K1 Ciencias Sociales
K1 Social Sciences
AB The building of bridges between Cuba and the US has been ongoing for a long time, not least by artists. Reconciliation work preceding the commencement of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US encompasses, for example, novelist Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban (1992), The Agüero Sisters (1997), and King of Cuba (2013). I 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. García writes conflict to end conflict and this is, I claim, her strongest contribution to the reconciliation processes. In the last part of the article I briefly discuss how I use the concept of translation to theorize the relationship between fiction and reality.
SN 2695-4168
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49271
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49271
LA spa
DS MINDS@UW
RD 23-abr-2024