The Cuban Condition Hardback: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature: 1 (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature, Series Number 1) - Hardcover

Firmat explores the process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. He argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubanía emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.