Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions

doi:10.1017/9781009168359.038

37 - Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions

from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

Lanie Millar

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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This chapter analyzes first-hand, multifaceted accounts within poetry and literary and documentary narratives that portray the experiences of the encounters between Cuba and Angola generated by Fidel Castro’s mobilization of Cubans to Angola in the mid-1970s, the nation’s most significant international mission. In the early years of the encounter, the chapter demonstrates, this body of work highlighted historical parallels of liberation from colonialism and celebrations of Cuban sacrifices but also revealed linguistic and cultural misunderstanding and the reproduction of stereotypes of Africa and Africans. Work on the subject published in the late twentieth century and first two decades of the twenty-first, by contrast, generally manifested the war’s after-effects, highlighting isolation, miscommunication, and uncertainty.

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literary and documentary representations of Cuba–Angola encounters parallels of anticolonial liberation celebrations of Cuban sacrifice in Angola Cuban–Angolan linguistic and cultural misunderstanding Cuban reproduction of Africa and African stereotypes isolation and miscommunication as after-effects of the Angolan war

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 580 - 593

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168359.038 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2024

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