You are here
Voices from the distance: Radio Marti and the (pen)insular construction of Cuban identity
- Date Issued:
- 1992
- Summary:
- In May, 1985, the United States government inaugurated Radio Marti, a broadcast-to-Cuba project with the avowed intent of providing the Cuban people with objective news. In this study I argue that an important though tacit political aim of this project is the reconstruction of Cuban identity. I take a cultural-studies approach in my "situated interpretation" of Radio Marti transmissions, foregrounding the mutual, discursive constitution of meaning and self-understanding. Situating my own voice within the multiple discourses on Cubanness, I note how the transmissions construct the voice of the Cuban exile in Miami and evoke an image of a separated Cuban community. I argue that Radio Marti invites listeners in Cuba to see themselves as belonging to this separated community and to translate the exile sense of loss into political agency directed against Castro and the Cuban government.
Title: | Voices from the distance: Radio Marti and the (pen)insular construction of Cuban identity. |
![]() ![]() |
---|---|---|
Name(s): |
Saco, Diana. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Fejes, Fred A., Thesis advisor |
|
Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1992 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 199 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | In May, 1985, the United States government inaugurated Radio Marti, a broadcast-to-Cuba project with the avowed intent of providing the Cuban people with objective news. In this study I argue that an important though tacit political aim of this project is the reconstruction of Cuban identity. I take a cultural-studies approach in my "situated interpretation" of Radio Marti transmissions, foregrounding the mutual, discursive constitution of meaning and self-understanding. Situating my own voice within the multiple discourses on Cubanness, I note how the transmissions construct the voice of the Cuban exile in Miami and evoke an image of a separated Cuban community. I argue that Radio Marti invites listeners in Cuba to see themselves as belonging to this separated community and to translate the exile sense of loss into political agency directed against Castro and the Cuban government. | |
Identifier: | 14823 (digitool), FADT14823 (IID), fau:11611 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1992. |
|
Subject(s): |
Radio Martí Program (US) Radio broadcasting--Cuba Cuban Americans--Florida |
|
Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14823 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |