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  • Title: Juan Flores. 2009. the Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeno Tales of Learning and Turning
  • Author : Caribbean Studies
  • Release Date : January 01, 2010
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 59 KB

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Juan Flores. 2009. The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeno Tales of Learning and Turning. New York: Routledge. 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-95261-3. A socio-cultural study of the ramifications of diasporic return migration, The Diaspora Strikes Back explodes borders and transcends traditions in both methodology and content to examine the "intense intersections of transnational desires" (p. 3) inherent in caribeno--Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban--return migration. The study tackles scope and specificity through a historical survey of caribeno diasporic cultural production (in literature, music, and the visual arts) and personal experience (through twenty-six testimonies spanning 1960 to the present). Anchored in the concept of "cultural remittance," Flores defines the phenomenon as "the ensemble of ideas, values, and expressive forms introduced into societies of origin by remigrants and their families as they return 'home,' sometimes for the first time, for temporary visits or permanent re-settlement, and as transmitted through the increasingly pervasive means of telecommunications" (p. 4). In three parts divided into six chapters, Flores examines the ways diasporas transform their countries of origin through these "slices" of life they introduce to them, also recognizing that cultural remittances are significantly interlaced with the imprint of the home country (he insists that salsa, for example, was sent to Puerto Rico from New York, where it originated from caribeno musical traditions "creolized" in the U.S.).


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