AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FEATURES IN THE CUBAN-AMERICAN FICTION
Shkilev Roman Evgen'evich
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Submitted: 11.09.2019
Abstract. The article analyses autobiographical features in the Cuban-American literature. Autobiographical strategies in the literary works of Pablo Medina, Omar Torres and Cristina Garcia are considered. Interrelation of autobiographical elements and the writers’ identity is examined; the peculiarities of choosing autobiographical self are revealed. It is shown that autobiography is simultaneously individual and collective in nature. The evolutionary stages of the Cuban-American prose are described. The author reveals the cultural aspects of losing historical Motherland by the immigrant writers, examines the peculiarities of their adaptation to the English culture and their efforts to establish communication with their readers. The conclusion is made about the influence of the ethnic writers’ life experience, cultural and linguistic environment on their self-identification and communication with different groups of readers.
Key words and phrases: иммигрантская литература, диаспора, автобиография, кубино-американская проза, этническая литература, идентичность, П. Медина, О. Торрес, К. Гарсиа, immigrant literature, diaspora, autobiography, Cuban-American prose, ethnic literature, identity, P. Medina, O. Torres, C. Garcia
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