Consciousness of exile : the politics of imagination in Cristina Garcia’s dreaming in Cuban

Abstract EN

In the strict literary scene, Cuban immigrants who as children left their island and grew up in the U.S are the ones who are preoccupied with the various issues of Cuban American diaspora.

Cristina Garcia, who is a Cuban exile living in the U.S, is one of the most prominent Cuban American literary voices to manifest her position in this dialogue.

In consonance with Garcia’s argument, undergoing an exilic experience depends heavily on the political, social, and psychological changes, taking into account issues like rebel, repression, uncertainty, stress, and alike.

The translation of such circumstances and desires may be demonstrated in different forms of expression.

Imagination and dreams are two main ways of expressions that Garcia deploys in her novel under scrutiny.

In this study, I intend to delineate borderlines between the main conceptions prevailing the novel Dreaming in Cuban, which are the physical exile, the psychological exile, and escapism through the novelist’s perception of reality.

Mindful of the fact that Garcia is a magical realist writer, the matter that strengthen the thesis that underscores the pivotal use of imagination, which prioritizes the inner state of the individual for pronouncing factual events.

The critical reading and discussion of Garcia’s chosen novel is going to depend essentially on the psychological, psychoanalytical, and sociological approaches.