RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Diasporic postmemory, Mariel and Chantel Acevedo’s "A Falling Star" A1 Rosales Herrera, Raúl K1 Postmemory K1 Diaspora K1 Diasporic subjectivity K1 Diasporic postmemory K1 Mariel exodus K1 Second generation K1 A Falling Star K1 Chantel Acevedo K1 Posmemoria K1 Diáspora K1 Subjetividad diaspórica K1 Posmemoria diaspórica K1 Éxodo del Mariel K1 Segunda generación K1 Arte K1 Art K1 Historia K1 History K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Sociología K1 Sociology K1 Filología K1 Philology AB Diasporic postmemory, understood as the fusion between the experience of postmemory and the affirmation of diasporic subjectivity, offers a valid theoretical framework for examining the cultural production of second-generation Cuban-American writers whose works recreate and reframe the stories and images of a traumatic past (in which the writers were not directly involved) as a strategy for interrogating and validating present-day Cuban-American identity. It is within this dynamic that the phenomenon emerges of works centered on making the Mariel exodus that traumaticpast −but in this case a past that also happens to be silenced and suppressed− through which the second generation will attempt to affirm its identity. A representative text is Chantel Acevedo’s 2014 novel, “A Falling Star”, which is analyzed in this essay through the critical perspective of diasporic postmemory. The essay presents how the novel scrutinizes the verbal and visual components of generational transmission that have caused the history of Mariel inherited by the second generation to be both lacking and inadequate, thus becoming an obstacle for present-day identitary affirmation. In this way, the novel “recuperates” Mariel by reaffirming it as an indispensable component of Cuban-American diasporic identity and postmemory. PB Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá SN 1889-5611 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33765 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33765 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 30-abr-2024