Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

524. Cuban Geographies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production

Presiding: H. J. Manzari, Washington and Jefferson Coll.

1. “On the Edge of the American Continent an Unknown Country: James J. O’Kelly’s Mambi-Land and the Geography of Cuban Independence,” Jennifer Brittan, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

2. “Nostalgia, Interrupted: Discontinuous Memories of Cuba in Diaspora Nightlife,” Celeste Fraser Delgado, Barry Univ.

3. “And There’s Only My Imagination Where Our History Should Be: Memoir Cookbooks, Childhood Memory, and Migratory Trauma,” Delores Phillips-Hazen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

4. “Rooms with a View: Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba,” Vicky Unruh, Univ. of Kansas

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