Dreaming In Cuban Summary
In the Latino culture you will find different categories of literature that differentiate cultures within the Latino community. In this specific article you will find how three different characters within the same family take a different approach towards Cuba. In the article “Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” by Mary S. Vasquez, the article highlights Cuba and, the view that Pilar, Lourdes and Celia have of it. In Mary S. Vasquez article her main interest is Cuba, and how it has the shape the lives of the whole family but specially Celia, Lourdes and Pilar. Through the article ““Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” by Mary S. Vasquez you can see how Cuba impacts Lourdes, Celia and
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In the article “Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” Celia is being label as a nationalist, no matter how bad times get she won’t leave Cuba behind. El Lider the man who change everything for Cuba and its people, Celia promises her loyalty to him to the legacy he left behind “Celia makes a decision. Ten years or twenty, whatever she has left she will devote to El Lider, give herself to his revolution” (Garcia 44). It looks like El Lider took Gustavo place, now Celia thinks more about El Lider than anyone else. You can see that is more of an obsession, she needs a man by her side, she feels loneliness. She has turn over on imagination to keep her going because she has no one to be around with but herself. This idea of patriotra(patriot) that holds Celia back in Cuba and, don’t let her go nowhere. She lives in a world of imagination that the only way she can she feels good about herself is through remembering memories. Cuba is the main factor of the article “Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” you can see how Cuba is portrayed as character, a character that you must stay loyal to “The Cuba of Garcia’s novel is both the sum and the part of the characters’ unions and sunderings, and sometimes the cause of their rendings. It is also both the product and the dividend, the irreducible core reality in whose terms they all exist” (Vasquez article). Vasquez describes how Cuba separated the family to go in different directions but at the same time it helps them to develop as a character throughout the whole
In the article “Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” Celia is being label as a nationalist, no matter how bad times get she won’t leave Cuba behind. El Lider the man who change everything for Cuba and its people, Celia promises her loyalty to him to the legacy he left behind “Celia makes a decision. Ten years or twenty, whatever she has left she will devote to El Lider, give herself to his revolution” (Garcia 44). It looks like El Lider took Gustavo place, now Celia thinks more about El Lider than anyone else. You can see that is more of an obsession, she needs a man by her side, she feels loneliness. She has turn over on imagination to keep her going because she has no one to be around with but herself. This idea of patriotra(patriot) that holds Celia back in Cuba and, don’t let her go nowhere. She lives in a world of imagination that the only way she can she feels good about herself is through remembering memories. Cuba is the main factor of the article “Cuba as Text and Context in Cristina Garcia’s “Dreaming in Cuban” you can see how Cuba is portrayed as character, a character that you must stay loyal to “The Cuba of Garcia’s novel is both the sum and the part of the characters’ unions and sunderings, and sometimes the cause of their rendings. It is also both the product and the dividend, the irreducible core reality in whose terms they all exist” (Vasquez article). Vasquez describes how Cuba separated the family to go in different directions but at the same time it helps them to develop as a character throughout the whole