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Director, Collin |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-10-13T21:41:08Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-10-13T21:41:08Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-03 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20273 |
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dc.description |
77 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Romance Languages and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2016. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The purpose ofthis study is to understand further the culture that the Cuban writers of the
Revolution endured, lived in, fled from, and contributed to. In order to achiev~ this goal I was
able to assemble a canon of texts from authors of the revolution that could be categorized by
their ideologies and perspective-- either perverse to the Revolution and/or exiled. The four are
poet Virgilio Pinera, playwright Anton Arrufat, and authors Edmundo Desnoes and Reinaldo
Arenas. Close reading their works (respectively) "La Isla en Peso," Los siete contra Te bas,
Memorias del subdesa"ollo, and Antes Que Anochezca, led to a discemable observation of their
description of 'the Island.' The authors portray the Island as incarcerating, as well as
incorporating a textual feminization of the Island.
Using Antonio Benitez Rojo's The Repeating Island and Michel de Certeau's The
Practice of Everyday Life as theoretical lenses, I argue that the cultural underdevelopment and
extreme censorship proves difficult in creating a national culture. The characterization of theIsland
is significant in concluding that this wave of writers created a platform for the next
generation's idea of a national culture by portraying the lack of space available throughout the
censorship of the Revolution. |
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en_US |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Romance Languages, Honors College, B.A., 2016; |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.subject |
Cuban culture |
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dc.subject |
The Island |
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dc.subject |
Entrapment |
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dc.subject |
Feminization |
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dc.subject |
Censorship |
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dc.subject |
Development |
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dc.subject |
Culture |
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dc.title |
The Construct of Cuban Culture: Entrapment and Feminization of 'The Island' |
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dc.type |
Thesis / Dissertation |
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