Transnational Cuban Autobiographers: Juan Abreu, Octavio Armand and Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega
Abstract
This article focuses on contemporary Cuban autobiography by examining three texts by Cuban intellectuals of different generations who endorse different politics of memory, transcending the traditional opposition between Revolution and Counter-Revolution. From a global perspective, based on the idea of Cuba as a transnational space, these autobiographies are considered as part of a network made of ideological, cultural and economic exchanges between people from both outside and inside the island. Juan Abreu, Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega and Octavio Armand belong to a large group of Cuban artists who have written autobiographies, considered in the widest sense of the term, in the last twenty years. Since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, ma¬ny authors have told their own experiences throughout their lives and have built a specific image for them¬selves.References
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[3] —, and Bosch, L. M. F., Eds.: Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
[4] AmÃcola, J.: AutobiografÃa como autofiguración: estrategias discursivas del Yo y cuestiones de género, Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo, CINIG, 2007.
[5] Arfuch, L.: El espacio biográfico. Dilemas de la subjetividad contemporánea, Buenos Aires: FCE, 2002.
[6] Armand, O.: El ocho cubano, Madrid: Efory Atocha, 2012.
[7] Assmann, A. and Shortt, L., Eds.: Memory and Political Change, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
[8] —, and Conrad, S.: Memory in a Global Age. Dicourses, Practices and Trajectories, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
[9] Buckwalter-Arias, J.: Cuba and the New Origenismo, Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2010.
[10] Clark, S. J.: AutobiografÃa y revolución en Cuba, Barquisimeto, Venezuela: AlcaldÃa del municipio Iribarren, Fondo Editorial RÃo Cenizo, 1999.
[11] Fernández, D. J.: Cuba Transnational, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
[12] Franco, S. R.: In(ter)venciones del yo. Escritura y sujeto autobiográfico en la literatura hispanoamericana (1974-2002), Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, Vervuert, 2012.
[13] GarciÌa, Vega, L.: El Oficio De Perder: Memorias, Valencina de la ConcepcioÌn, Sevilla: Espuela de Plata, 2005 [1ª Ed. Puebla, México: BenemeÌrita Universidad AutoÌnoma de Puebla, 2004].
[14] —, “De mi archivo/Carta de Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega†[a Manuel DÃaz MartÃnez], 1992. [Online]. Available: http://www.cubaencuentro.com/cuba/a-un-clic/diazmartinez-de-mi-archivo-personal-carta-de-lorenzo-garcia-vega-por-manuel-diaz-martinez
[15] —, Aguilera C. A.: “La patria albinaâ€, Entrevista a Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega, Cubaencuentro, 16 de septiembre de 2005,
http://www.cubaencuentro.com/entrevistas/articulos/la-patria-albina-5041
[16] Loureiro, A. G.: The Ethics of Autobiography: Replacing the Subject in Modern Spain. Nashville, Tennesse: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
[17] —, Coord.: “La autobiografÃa y sus problemas teóricosâ€, Suplementos Anthropos, vol. 29, 1991.
[18] Molloy, S.: At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, Cambridge, Nueva York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
[19] Pozuelo Yvancos, J. M.: De la autobiografÃa: teorÃa y estilos, Barcelona: CrÃtica, 2005.
[20] Ricoeur, P.: La Mémoire,l’histoire,l’oubli, Paris: Seuil, 2000.
[21] Rojas, R.: Tumbas sin sosiego: revolucioÌn, disidencia y exilio del intelectual cubano, Barcelona: Anagrama, 2006.
[22] Said, E. W.: Edward W. Reflections on Exile and other Essays, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Universtity Press, 2002.
[23] Sarlo, B.: Tiempo pasado: cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo: una discusión, Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno, 2005.
[24] Weimer, T. N.: La diáspora cubana en México: Terceros espacios y miradas excéntricas, New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
How to Cite
GóMEZ DE TEJADA, Jesús.
Transnational Cuban Autobiographers: Juan Abreu, Octavio Armand and Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega.
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 7, p. 53-60, dec. 2014.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/29>. Date accessed: 25 mar. 2026.
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Keywords
Cuban literature, Cuban autobiographies, Transnationalism, Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega, Juan Abreu, Octavio Armand
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