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Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel By Gregory Helmick Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel By Gregory Helmick This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Gregory Helmick All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8545-2 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8545-4 For Joanna, Sam, and James In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones—when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now—perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. (Charles Ives, Essays Before a Sonata71) TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................ ix CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................... 1 Introduction: Archival Dissonance as Metacritical Methodology in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel Outliers of the Ethnic Paradigm in U.S. Cuban Fiction From Exile to “Post-Exile” in the U.S. Cuban Historical Novel Historiography in the Development of U.S. Cuban Literature Plan of the Book CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................ 23 Cuban Revisionist Historiography and Transculturation in Roberto G. Fernández’s La vida es un special$1.50.75 Readership and Reception of Fernández’s Novels Vignette Structures in La vida es un special Fernández’s Novels as Metacritical Archive Dystopian Florida Cuban Fiction and its Contexts Empire and Sugar Aristocracy Transcultured Thanksgiving Myths, Pattaki of “San Given” Re-archiving Operation Pedro Pan and the Mariel Exodus Black Friday: Cuban American Politics, Florida Sugar, and Military Occupation Reconstituted Aristocracies “We All Live In a Yellow Submarine”: Rhetorical Validation of Revolution in La vida es un special and the Areíto Group Criticism of Cuban Exile Literature in Fernández’s Work Discourse, Historicity, and Bargain Shopping: Critical Parody of Lilayando in La vida es un special Documenting the Occult: Santería as Archive and the Esu, Griñán Peralta, and Sarduy Subtexts in La vida es un special Synthesis: Sugar People, Transcultured Turkeys, and Archival Ghosts viii Table of Contents CHAPTER THREE ......................................................................................... 81 Commodifying Revolution as Popular Romance in Loving Che by Ana Menéndez Menéndez’s Career, Readership, and Reception Towards Loving Che and After Menéndez and the Miami Media Machine Overview and Context of the Novel: Gendered Discourse of Family and Nation Interposition of the Cuban Exile Grandfather Markings of Cuba’s Special Period in Loving Che Interposition of Apocryphal Revolutionary History as Romance Fiction Reader Response and the Popular Romance Frame “Great Man” Historiography in Loving Che Historical and Literary Sources for Guevara and the Cuban Revolution in Loving Che Martí, Intertextuality, and Monumentality in Loving Che Conclusions CHAPTER FOUR ......................................................................................... 135 Staging Enriqueta Faber as Post-Exile,Transatlantic, Trans-Caribbean Memoirist in Mujer en traje de batalla by Antonio Benítez Rojo Antonio Benítez Rojo: Statistics and Literature, 1958-2005 Benítez Rojo’s Caribbean Trilogy, 1979-2000 Mujer en traje de batalla: Overview and Critical Reception Cuban Archival Appropriation of Enriqueta Faber as Paratextual Frame in Mujer en traje de batalla: From Calcagno to Marrero “Éste, que ves, engaño colorido”: Specular Transvestitism in Mujer en traje de batalla “Caos se ha visto en la historia de la humanidad”: Henriette Faber-Cavent’s Memoir Oceanic Textualities of Maryse Polidor: Improvisation and Supersyncretism as a Poetics of Survival and Trans- Caribbean Plantation History The Island of Juana de León Conclusion: The Progression of Enriqueta Faber’s Last Archival Meditations CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................... 193 NOTES ....................................................................................................... 199 WORKSCITED ........................................................................................... 215 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to gratefully acknowledge César A. Salgado, Jossianna Arroyo- Martínez, Naomi E. Lindstrom, Nicolas Shumway, and Harold A. Wylie, Jr., who made this project possible from its origins at the University of Texas at Austin. I also owe a note of appreciation to Jorge Febles, Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, and Gustavo Pérez Firmat for having taken the time to discuss it with me at different stages. Finally, many sincere thanks to my colleagues and friends at the University of North Florida for their generous support and insight.
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