Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks CAHSS Faculty Theses and Dissertations Faculty Scholarship 2002 Beyond the Nation: Issues of Identity in the Contemporary Narrative of Cuban Women Writing (in) the Diaspora Yvette Fuentes Nova Southeastern University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/chass_facetd Part of the Latin American Literature Commons, and the Latina/o Studies Commons Share Feedback About This Item NSUWorks Citation Yvette Fuentes. 2002. Beyond the Nation: Issues of Identity in the Contemporary Narrative of Cuban Women Writing (in) the Diaspora. Doctoral dissertation. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, . (1) https://nsuworks.nova.edu/chass_facetd/1. This Dissertation is brought to you by the Faculty Scholarship at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHSS Faculty Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. INTRODUCTION DIVING INTO CURRENT DEBATES ON CONTEMPORARY CUBAN LITERATURE RODEADA de mar por todas partes, soy isla asida al tallo de los vientos… Nadie escucha mi voz si rezo o grito: Puedo volar o hundirme… Puedo, a veces, morder mi cola en signo de Infinito. Soy tierra desgajándose… Hay momentos en que el agua me ciega y me acobarda, en que el agua es la muerte donde floto… Pero abierta a mareas y ciclones, Hinco en el mar raíz de pecho roto. Crezo del mar y muero de él… Me alzo ¡para volverme en nudos desatados…! ¡Me come un mar abatido por las alas de arcángeles sin cielo, naufragados! 1 [Surrounded by sea on all sides, I'm an island held by the stalks of the winds… No one hears my voice, if I pray or scream: I can fly or sink… I could, at times, bite my tail like the Infinity sign.