Nostalgia in Cuban Theater across the shores

• Autores: Patricia Elena González
• Localización: Evolving origins, transplanting cultures: literary Legacies of the news Americans / coord. por Laura Alonso Gallo; Antonia Domínguez Miguela (aut.), 2002, ISBN 978-84-95699-70-1, págs. 53-65
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay develops the role nostalgia has played in the theatrical production of Cuba in the United States and in the island. Nostalgia became an integral part of Cuban idiosyncrasy when big waves of people left after Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. Plays written by different generation of Cuban emigrants included the memories of yesteryears. The collective memories of older generations were past down to younger Cubans born in the United States and they too are still yearning shores and a land they have never known. Incorporated in the essay are playwrights of the first generation like Matlas Montes Huidobro, Leopoldo Hernandez and Miguel Gonzalez Pando. Members of the 1.5-generation studied are Dolores Prida, Alina Troyano and Eduardo Machado. Leandro Soto, a recent immigrant to the United States is also included within the genre of Performance. Playwrights from the island suffering cultural nostalgia included in the paper are Eugenio Hernandez Espinosa, Gerardo Fulleda and Alberto Pedro Torriente. There are enough similarities in recent theatrical productions in both shores to study them together. Remembering past events, smells and feelings is universal but Cubans have been severely bitten by the nostalgia virus. Longing for the past has brought the shores closer together, re-establishing that Cuban culture is one. Building bridges to open communication is part of the process.