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| CRISTINA GARCÍA (La Habana, 1958) |
| Vida
Nacida en La Habana and raised in New York City. Recibe una Beca Guggenheim y el Premio Whiting Writers. Vive con su hija Pilar en California. Obra Dreaming in Cuban (1992) - Saga familiar hilada a través de los distintos componentes de una familia cubana en distintas épocas (sin orden cronológico) en Cuba y Estados Unidos, y de las cartas de Celia entre 1935 y 1958 a su primer amante Gustavo (2nd person, intimate, confessing). Personajes: - Celia: matriarca, Revolución Cubana better for women, 3rd person with focalization on her. 1972: Jorge del Pino´s death, present tense with flashbacks. Juez popular for Castro (como si éste fuese su amante). - Letters (35-40) to Gustavo Sierra (granaíno del que se había enamorado de joven antes de casarse) In 2nd person, intimate. Lenguaje surrealista y poético. La meten en el manicomio por un tiempo. - Pilar (hija de Lourdes y Rufino): skeptical, sharp, premature, narration in 1st person, telepathy with her grandmother Celia (magical realism). And Celia w/ husband. Se escapa a Miami pero la pillan. “The family is hostile to the individual”. Rebel daughter. Artist (statue of the liberty with a safety pin). Since 2 is considered to be bewitched. - Lourdes: with bakeries in Brooklin. 3rd present. Married to a wealthy Cuban before Revolution and raped in Cuba by a Revolutionary soldier in 1959. Talks with her dead father Jorge. - Felicia: desequilibrada, hard life, burns her husband Hugo Villaverde (marino mercante con sífilis), white witchcraft. Santeros proféticos (padre de su amiga Herminia): todos sus maridos mueren. Letters (42-49). - Luz (1970, hija de Felicia): 1st person. Doesn’t like her mother. Reencounter w/ father desfigurado in hotel. - Lourdes (1975) becomes a volunteer cop. Brooklin w/ Puerto Rican dealers. Su marido Rufino soñador, inventor = José Aureliano Buendía. 3rd person but strong focalization. Strong anti-castrist. - Pilar (1976): Lou Ree, Iggy Pop, Ramones. Novios hippies. Casi feminista, artista. - Ivanito (hijo de Felicia), 1st person, gifted for languages and memory, meets father with no face. - Javier (hijo de Celia (focal.) que vive muchos años en Rusia), desapariciones de santeras, tumores que se reproducen. - Letters (50-55) Political, + family and reconstruction. - Pilar (78): Artist, Italy, “English seems an impossible language for intimacy”. - Herminia (80): 1st person remembering the past w/ Felicia. Revolution good for racial but men are still in charge. Historia de Felicia que se hace santera y muere de una extraña enfermedad (sifilix?) - Pilar: Peruvian embassy defection (Ivanito) . Circular: Beginnig and final w/ Celia bathing for death. Con extractos de poesía en español. Animismo-sincretismo cubano: Changó, Felicia y Herminia. Politically balanced. Cristina identified w/ Pilar. Also w/ Celia. Lourdes: hard intolerant carácter but family-defender. Magical communication in space or time: Pilar with grandmother, Lourdes with father. Different stories of Cubans being affected by the Revolution. |
| (perdón por el Spanglish pero la novela es en inglés y así es como me salieron las notas) |
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