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For the nearly one million Cuban exiles in this country, the ordeal of expatriation has meant anguish and uprootedness, challenge and accomplishment. Several factors account for the comparatively successful aspects of their struggle: relatively high occupational and educational levels, formation of vigorous communities that permit the maintenance of a positive ethnic consciousness and the creation of strong social ties, and effectively organized reception by the United States. Expatriation is always traumatic and produces "casualties," but mastery of the struggles it involves can lead to personal growth and expanded horizons. The Cuban expatriate experience shows that the influx of large numbers of refugees can be a creative and enriching process for both the host country and the individual refugee.

THIS ESSAY PROVIDES AN EYE-WITNESS LOOK AT PRESENT-DAY CUBA AND ITS CHALLENGES. WHILE MOST CUBANS ARE STILL WARY OF THE UNREGULATED MARKET THEY HEAR HOLDS SWAY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND WHILE MANY ARE SLOW TO ACCEPT THE CLAIMS OF THE LARGE CUBAN EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY IN MIAMI, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE DIFFICULTY WITH WHICH MANY CUBANS SECURE BASIC NECESSITIES HAVE CAUSED MANY TO TRY TO CONCEIVE OF DIFFERENT FUTURES THAT MAY UNFOLD IN A POST-CASTRO CUBA. THE CONFLICT WITH WASHINGTON IS PROBABLY THE ONE BASIS OF THE CASTRO REGIME'S LEGITIMACY THAT STILL HAS MAJOR RESONANCE FOR CUBANS.

With the exception of Dominican Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, no other foreign-born hero of Cuba's War for Independence is so admired and beloved by Cubans as Major General Carlos Roloff Mialofsky, «The Polish "Mambí"». This article examines Roloff's activities in the United States, organizing Cuban expatriates prior to and during the War of Independence (1895-1898). Emphasis is placed on Roloff's penchant for organization, his leadership, and his mastery of deceit in coordinating expeditions in the United States right under the noses of American authorities and Spanish agents. «The Polish "Mambí's"» efforts in the United States were major factors in securing Cuba's freedom. ; A excepción del generalísimo dominicano Máximo Gómez, ningún héroe extranjero de la guerra de Independencia cubana es tan admirado y estimado por los cubanos como lo es el mayor general Carlos Roloff Mialofsky, «El "Mambí" polaco».Este artículo tiene como propósito examinar las actividades del general Roloff como uno de los líderes de la comunidad de expatriados cubanos en los Estados Unidos antes de la guerra de Independencia cubana y durante dicha guerra (1895-1898). El artículo enfatiza el liderazgo de Roloff, su don de organizador y su maestría en la coordinación de expediciones militares desde los Estados Unidos, burlándose de oficiales norteamericanos y agentes españoles. Los esfuerzos del «"Mambí" polaco» fueron de gran valor para alcanzar la libertad cubana.

Criticizes provisions concerning the US blockade, property of US citizens seized by the Cuban government, reinstatement of the citizenship of expatriate Cubans, and rights of foreign investors in Cuba; US. Analysis of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (LIBERTAD), also called the Helms-Burton Act, passed in Mar. 1996 by the US Congress.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has studied the declaration of the President of the United States of America according to which he has expressed his intention of accepting on American soil Cuban nationals wishing to expatriate themselves. Since its name has been mentioned in this declaration, the ICRC wishes to point out the following : if an agreement is realized through diplomatic channels and if the Cuban Government and the Government of the United States desire the co-operation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the latter would be pleased to contribute, on the strictly humanitarian level which is its own, to the success of the action.

Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an "unthinkable history." Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become "another Haiti" were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history

Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses, ranging from Fernando Ortis's Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noël Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). Unlike previous texts, Plasa's meticulously researched book not only examines the traditional classic studies but also the hitherto largely ignored work produced by a number of expatriate Caribbean authors, both male and female, from the 1980s onwards. As a result Slaves to Sweetness provides the most comprehensive account to date of the historical transformations which sugar's representation has undergone, providing a rich resource for scholars in Slavery, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, Postcolonial and Literary Studies

This dissertation explores exilic human rights literature as the literary genre encompassing under its aegis thematic and textual concerns and characteristics contiguous with dissident literature, resistance literature, postcolonial literature, and feminist literature. Departing from the ethics of recognition advanced by literary critics Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith, my study explores how human rights and narrated lives generate larger discursive practices and how, in their fight for justice, diasporic intellectual networks in France debate ideas, oppressive institutions, cultural practices, Arab and European Enlightenment legacies, different traditions of philosophical and religious principles, and global transformations. I conceptualize the term francité d'urgence , definitory to the literary work and intellectual trajectories of those writers who, forced by the difficult political situation in their home countries, make a paradoxical aesthetic use of France, its territory, or its language to promote local, regional, and global social justice via broader audiences. The first chapter theorizes a comparative analysis of human rights literature produced at a global diasporic site by transnational authors circulating between several locations - Middle East, North Africa, Cuba, Eastern Europe, France and the United States - that inform their cultural identities and goals. The second chapter reframes the works of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laâbi and Iraqi-Saudi `Abd ar-Rahman Munif by exploring the ways in which two renowned Arab writers uniquely give voice to the suffering of the outside while writing from the inside of a Moroccan and Iraqi prison, respectively, under the regimes of Hassan II in Morocco and the Baath Party in Iraq. The analysis of the Cold War literary output of Eastern European and Cuban cultural diasporas in France (based on the works by Paul Goma, Lena Constante, Eduardo Manet, and Reinaldo Arenas) completes this critical excursus. Through the writing of dissident, feminist, resistance, dictatorship and prison literature, world exiles, expatriats, refugees, and former prisoners of conscience in France reconfigure cosmopolitan networks and cultural centralities far away from the native centers that matter to them. These exilic writers propose alternate histories, identities, and modes of interaction and map a critical model of understanding global cultural nodal points that can be applied to other world cultural centers or metropoli as well (London, New York, or Madrid are only several examples). Similarly to postcolonialism, authoritarian political systems and coerced migrations unwittingly create new world systems such as the literary and political Francophonie (or Anglophonie ), through which narratives of abuses and rights are filtrated; by and large, these are systems in motion, regionally and globally inflected, and actively involved in the movements of contemporary history. In this process of Francophone cultural remodeling, the disputed universalism of the French language and space gets surprisingly validated by the universal language of rights that diasporic writers in France advance in their efforts to counteract the language du bois of the world republics of fear with the human rights lingo of the republic of letters.

Klappentext: Cuba: Arte y literatura en exilio recopila una seleccin de ensayos que se presentaron en el Iv Congreso internacional sobre creacin y exilio 'Con Cuba en la distancia' en la ciudad de Valencia, Espaa. El evento constituye un foro de pensamiento independiente en torno a la cultura cubana vivida desde la perspectiva del exilio y la experiencia transnacional o transcultural, donde tienen cabida los estudios culturales, sociolgicos, econmicos y polticos. La antologa se centra en seis temas en particular: la obra de Manuel Daz Martnez, ideologa y cultura, expresin afrocubana, teatro y cine, creacin y exilio, y la actualidad artstica y comunicativa. Recopilamos veinticinco ensayos de acadmicos especialistas en cultura cubana de diversas universidades europeas y norteamericanas, todos ellos con bastante reconocimiento en el mbito acadmico.