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A New No-Man's-Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba

A New No-Man's-Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba

Whitfield, Esther

Hardcover

Series: Illuminations

Caribbean HistoryLiterary CriticismCaribbean, Latin American & South American Art

ISBN10: 082294815X
ISBN13: 9780822948155
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Guantánamo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In A New No-Man's-Land, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive of materials produced both at the US naval base and in neighboring Cuban communities and proposes an understanding of Guantánamo as a coherent borderland region, where experiences of isolation are opportunities to find common ground. She analyzes poetry, art, memoirs, and documentary films produced on both sides of the border. Authors and artists include prisoners, guards, linguists, chaplains, lawyers, and journalists, as well as Cuban artists and dissidents. Their work reveals surprising similarities: limited access to power and self-representation, mobility restricted by geography if not captivity, and immersion in political languages that have ascribed them rigid roles. Read together, the work of these disparate communities traces networks that extend among individuals in the Guantánamo region, inward to Cuba, and outward to the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.

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