Identity In Dreaming In Cuban

The Struggle for Identity in
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dream in Cuban

Professor veronica Popescu Multicultural Perspectives MA American Studies 1-st Year 01/28/2011

Dedication
I would like to dedicate this hear to my graduate fellow MA colleagues as all of us are challenged these days to extend better, appreciate each other, compete in a regardful and h integrityst way and dream in a putting surface language.

The Struggle for Identity in Dreaming in Cuban
This essay represents a humble attempt to watch the struggles an immigrant to a recent country and a new culture faces in club to form his/her unique identity element. Pilar Puente, the alter ego of Cristina Garcia, is one of the main characters in the touching novel Dreaming in Cuban. Caught between twain different cultures, two different worlds and two different languages, Pilar struggles to discover her new Cuban American identity. We are going to take into consideration some of the nigh important events and factors that contributed and formed her unique bicultural identity. W here do I live on? What does it mean to have a national identity? Is this identity American or Cuban? Where are my roots?



What does is determine to be a Latino/a, a bilingual, a hybrid, existence from two worlds, straddling the fence, belonging neither here nor there, belonging here and there, living in the borderlands?1 How do families adapt to a different political, economic and social system, to something completely new and maybe weird called communism? How do women cope in a patriarchal society? What is the reality like through womens eyes? These questions require an honest answer if we are to understand the complicated concept of identity applied to Latino/a immigrants. In an interview about her autobiographical novels, Cristina Garcia, the author of Dreaming in Cuban, explains:

I treasured to examine very virtually the personal cost of what happened in Cuba after 1959. And I wanted to very specifically examine how women have responded and...If you want to furbish up a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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