From estrangement to reconciliation : how dis-eased identities propel reconciliation in Cristina Garcia’s dreaming in Cuban

Abstract EN

Dreaming in Cuban (1992) presents the lives of Cuban exiles in the USA.

it highlights the aftermath of the Cuban revolution that resulted in dysfunctional families torn apart because of the exile of hundreds of Cubans after Castro's takeover.

in the novel, Pilar is a mediator between Cubans and Cuban Americans.

thus, whatever the damages perpetrated by the revolution, Garcia offers her novel as a reconciliatory tract convincing her readers that identities of Cuban exiles and Cubans have become dis-eased because of broken familial ties.

therefore, this paper seeks to investigate Garcia's strategic narrative of reconciliation between Cubans and Cuban Americans.

the main question addressed in this paper is ; how can Cubans and Cuban Americans mend the relations that have been shattered by the Cuban revolution ? this research offers an answer to the previous question through Garcia's novel dreaming in Cuban that suggests that reconciliation becomes the only alternative to all characters already psychologically weakened by exile.

Garcia presents.