How contemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In
Writing Islands, Elena Lahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic
studies to analyze works of contemporary Cuban writers on the
island alongside those in exile. Offering a new lens to explore the
multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she argues that these
writers approach their nation as part of a larger, transnational
network of islands. Introducing the term "arcubielago" to describe
the spaces created by Cuban writers, both on the ground and in
print, Lahr-Vivaz illuminates how transnational communities are
forged and how they function across space and time. Lahr-Vivaz
considers how poets, novelists, and essayists of the 1990s and
2000s built interconnected communities of readers through blogs,
state-sponsored book fairs, informal methods of book circulation,
and intertextual dialogues. Book chapters offer in-depth analyses
of the works of writers as different as Reina Maria Rodriguez,
known for lyrical poetry, and Zoe Valdes, known for strident
critiques of Fidel Castro. Incorporating insights from on-site
interviews in Cuba, Spain, and the United States, Lahr-Vivaz
analyzes how writers maintained connections materially, through the
distribution of works, and metaphorically, as their texts bridge
spaces separated by geopolitics. Through a decolonizing methodology
that resists limiting Cuba to a distinct geographic space, Writing
Islands investigates the nuances of Cuban identity, the creation of
alternate spaces of identity, the potential of the Internet for
artistic expression, and the transnational bonds that join
far-flung communities. Publication of this work made possible by a
Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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