Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History

by: Yairen Jerez Columbié (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 27 April 2021

Language: English

Print Length: 115 pages

ISBN-10: 3030730395

ISBN-13: 9783030730390

Book Description

This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and joueys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood. Both the concept of transculturation and its instrumentalization to tame conflict within nationalist projects are problematic. By uncovering and examining the contradictions between the fluid character of identities in the Cuban context of the first half of the twentieth century and nationalist discourses, within both the Catalanist community of Havana and Cuban society, this book joins wider debates about identities.