(Re)Constructing our historical memory

[...] while historical and journalistic documentation of a community's experience is essential to its members' histories and memories, as Maja Horn argues, nostalgia too is important to apprehend a given population's lives. [...] through a close reading of Oscar Hijuelos' The Mam...

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Published in:Latino studies 2009-12, Vol.7 (4), p.407-409
Main Author: Oboler, Suzanne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Cuban Americans
Cultural and Media Studies
Cultural Studies
Editorial
Ethnicity Studies
Hijuelos, Oscar
Identity formation
Immigrants
Literature
Memory
Migration
Noncitizens
North American Free Trade Agreement
Nostalgia
Postcolonial/World Literature
Regional and Cultural Studies
Women
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Summary:[...] while historical and journalistic documentation of a community's experience is essential to its members' histories and memories, as Maja Horn argues, nostalgia too is important to apprehend a given population's lives. [...] through a close reading of Oscar Hijuelos' The Mambo Kings, her analysis recovers the significance of nostalgia for understanding the specific context of Cuban American lives, and the "real and imaginary spaces assigned to them" in the United States.
ISSN:1476-3435
1476-3443
DOI:10.1057/lst.2009.40