%0 Journal Article 
%A Helmick, Gregory
%T Jacksonville Cubanía in James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912) and "Along This Way" (1933)
%D 2017
%@ 1889-5611
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33743
%X The nineteenth-century Cuban population of Jacksonville, Florida, is featured
in such noted texts from the island as “Autobiografía del cubano Luis de Radillo y Rodríguez” (1899); “Martí: el apóstol” (1932) by Jorge Mañach; “Temas Martianos” (1959) by Cintio Vitier and Fina García Marruz; and “Paradiso” (1966) by José Lezama Lima. While aesthetically and ideologically diverse, this body of work portrays Cuban Jacksonville as an essentially homogeneous émigré community defined in terms of nationalist politics (as a local subsidiary of the New York- and Tampa-based Partido Revolucionario Cubano) and an “expiration date”: the compromised national independence of 1902. In contrast, the memoir “Along This Way” (1933) by the black modernist writer James Weldon Johnson reinforces the demographic heterogeneity and socially integrated nature of this multilingual and fluid (but long-term) Jacksonville Cuban presence. Johnson’s narration of his family’s lost milieu in the Creole neighborhood of LaVilla is at the same time granular in its specificity and poetically abstract in its presentation of cultural contact. This article proposes that Johnson applied and further developed his experience with Jacksonville “cubanía” well into other aspects of his career after having left Florida, as evidenced in the 1912 novel "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man",
"Along This Way" and other sources.

%K Cuban Florida
%K Jacksonville
%K LaVilla
%K Bilingualism
%K Transculturation
%K James Weldon Johnson
%K Fernando Ortiz
%K José Lezama Lima
%K Jim Crow
%K Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
%K Spanish in the United States
%K La Florida cubana
%K Bilingüismo
%K Transculturación
%K El español en los Estados Unidos
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Historia
%K History
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%K Filología
%K Philology
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