Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Labrador-Rodriguez, Sonia

Keywords

Cuban-American, Bilingualism, Gustavo Perez Firmat

Area of Concentration

Literature

Abstract

This thesis will focus on the literary construction of the Cuban-American identity and how Cuban and American cultural elements fuse together in the critical works and poetry of Gustavo P�rez Firmat. There is a trajectory of Cuban letters in the United States after the 1959 Cuban revolution as it progresses from exilic to ethnic. The three stages in this literary trajectory can be identified as: Cuban exile writers, a one and a half generation of writers, and Cuban-American ethnic writers. Greater emphasis will be placed on the one and a half generation, or Cuban-American generation, as these writers produce works that display a level of cultural hybridity not seen in the first and third generations. Chapter one will present a foundational understanding of the various literary groups that make up this trajectory. Chapter two will focus on Cuban-American culture as it is presented by poet and scholar P�rez Firmat including his theories on translational style and Cuban-American pop culture. Lastly, chapter three focuses on the socio-linguistic and emotional issues associated with bilingualism as it relates to Cuban-American writers and P�rez Firmat's collection of poetry Bilingual Blues.

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