Styles and Strategies of Remembrance in the Novels of Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia

Download or read book Styles and Strategies of Remembrance in the Novels of Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia written by Stephen Glenn Zoegall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia are masterpieces of memory. Arguably the most gifted and inarguably the most mainstream of Cuban-American novelists, Hijuelos and Garcia write lush, sensual, sophisticated explorations of the personal, familial and cultural pasts. Unlike so much of Cuban-American literature, however, these novels are not hospitable to unalloyed nostalgia; they are, in fact, profoundly suspicious of the tendency of nostalgia to distort the facts of the historical past for the political interests of the present.