Transnational Cuban Autobiographers: Juan Abreu, Octavio Armand and Lorenzo García Vega

Abstract

This article focuses on contemporary Cuban autobiography by examining three texts by Cuban intellectuals of different generations who endorse different politics of memory, transcending the traditional opposition between Revolution and Counter‐Revolution. From a global perspective, based on the idea of Cuba as a transnational space, these autobiographies are considered as part of a network made of ideological, cultural and economic exchanges between people from both outside and inside the island. Juan Abreu, Lorenzo García Vega and Octavio Armand belong to a large group of Cuban artists who have written autobiographies, considered in the widest sense of the term, in the last twenty years. Since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, many authors have told their own experiences throughout their lives and have built a specific image for themselves.