
Carlos David Vázquez Pérez
miscelánea 71 (2025): pp. 151-168 ISSN: 1137-6368 e-ISSN: 2386-4834
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Notes
1. “the Cuban nation in García’s
novels is a highly individualized and personal
matter”.
2. “develop, sustain, and recreate
individuals’ identities”.
3. “the definitive story of Cuban
exiles”.
4. “there are Cuban-American
literatures because there are Cuban
Americans”.
5. “in revolutionary Cuba, the
possibility of leaving —or being left—
became part of everyday life”.
6. “a yearning for the past, or a
fondness for tangible or intangible
possessions and activities linked with the
past”.
7. “not only tangible products, but
activities”.
8. “signal and reinforce
consumers’ self-identity”.
9. “many American Jews are
increasingly communicating Jewish values
and ideas to their children by engaging with
the products of museums, gift shops,
restaurants, publishing companies, toy
manufacturers, philantropies, and other
ostensibly secular institutions”.
10. “nostalgia is used to develop,
sustain, and recreate individuals’ identities”.
11. “¿Y qué tú quieres que te
den?”: La Regla de Osha-Ifá como elemento
de supervivencia y puente hacia la identidad
nacional”. Hace referencia al título de la
popular canción de Adalberto Álvarez y su
Son lanzada en 1995 como parte del álbum
Caliente, Caliente. Este homenaje musical a
los orishas no solo ayudó a dar visibilidad a
la religión Yoruba dentro y fuera de Cuba,
sino que también contribuyó a su aceptación
y reconocimiento como parte integral de la
identidad cultural cubana.
12. “under the constraints of their
oppression, the slaves began to fuse the
intermediaries of the two religions and to
identify a specific orisha with a
corresponding specific saint”.
13. Fallecida en 1985 en
situaciones sospechosas a la corta edad de
36 años.
14. “affirmation of a free and
natural being who refused to be colonized”.
15. “first employs Santería as a
young woman, and the practice proves to
ensure her survival”.
16. “the second generation’s own
memories take a back seat to or exist in the
shadow of traumatic memories to which
they have only limited and highly charged
access”.
17. “the historical trauma of
slavery, sexual violence, tyrannical
governance, and diaspora is so damaging
that it is inherited by each generation”.
18. “create a disconnection
between her children and their Caribbean
homeland that leaves them without stable
footing or a complete identity growing up in
the US”.
19. “the loss of the daughter to
the mother, the mother to the daughter”.
20. “process of healing and
moving past their family’s traumatic legacy”.
21. “bridging the gap of the
diaspora”.
22. “the agency to make decisions
that she never thought possible”.
23. “in hopes of resolving the
nostalgia that the Cuban cultural products
cannot ultimately satiate”.
24. “the place of exile is defined
by what is missing, not by what it contains”.