Abstract
In her article "Authoethnography and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban" Samantha L. McAuliffe positions Cristina Garcia's novel as a text of self-discovery and cultural reconciliation. McAuliffe examines multilingualism and hybridity in Dreaming in Cuban and postulates that the novel represents what Marie Louise Pratt calls the "contact zone" where cultures meet and clash. As autoethnography, Dreaming in Cuban allows an insider view of what being Cuban American really means. The reader is able to experience the conflict those with a hybrid identity experience through the eyes of one in the midst of that conflict. Further, McAuliffe suggests in her analysis that there is evidence that Garcia herself is able to reconcile issues of culture and identity through the writing of the novel.
Recommended Citation
McAuliffe, Samantha L.
"Autoethnography and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
13.4
(2011):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1874>
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