Mariel Condition: the underground memories of the Cuban revolutionary experience (1959 1990) / A Condição Mariel : memórias subterrâneas da experiência revolucionária cubana (1959-1990)

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2009

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In the present work we investigated the group of intellectuals and artists exiled from Cuba, self-called Mariel Generation, which emigrated from Cuba to the United States of America in 1980 through the port of Mariel. After analyzing documents, statements, written material in general, and literature produced by the own group, we approached the identity project of the Mariel Generation. During the research we realized that the group struggled for their memory on the island. The dissentions caused by the Cuban revolutionary proposal to transform its new generation (youth) into the new man emerged from the narratives of the Mariel Generation. This was one of the main objectives of the revolution in the first years. We also understood that the Mariel Generation was, above all, a part of the Cuban young generation, mainly from Havana, which did not want or could not establish themselves within the new ongoing social configuration and that, through the means of a new moral ethics, looked for molding the future rebels on the island. In the first part of this study, we tried to understand the revolutionary principles aiming to constitute a new Cuban society and, moreover, to educate their youngsters. In the second part, we analyzed how the Mariel migration was represented in the perspective of both the Cuban political leadership and the Cuban media. The representation carried out in the United States of America, principally by most members of the Cuban community in Miami, was analyzed as well. Finally, we observed the representation of some individuals of the Mariel Generation, who, as far as we are concerned, fought through their narratives and memories to achieve their social recognition. In some moments, the battle the members of this group had to fight against their fellow country people to justify their lives distinguishes the differences in trajectory, experience, and perspective on the future of the island. The fact of being outsiders both in Cuba and in the exile made them define themselves as a new representation of Cuban identity: the Mariel Generation.

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literature exile juventude exílio geração mariel literatura revolução cubana historia identity mariel generation identidade cuban revolution youth

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