Liminal visitors to an island on the edge
Sartre and Ginsberg in revolutionary Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Fay (0000-0002-5883-2606, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 407-425 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13645145.2011.617969 |
| OpenAlex | W1965573865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Cuban revolution drastically altered the country's socio-cultural calibration and from 1959 pleasure-seeking tourists made way for intellectual travellers keen to contribute to the revolutionary process. Jean-Paul Sartre arrived on the island in 1960, Allen Ginsberg followed in 1965; their experiences and observations couldn’t have been more different. Although explanation for this discrepancy could be sought in the ideological idiosyncrasies of the two writers, this essay argues that the island visited was not the same. Using a liminal ontology inherited from anthropology to explore the Cuban revolution as a rite of national passage, this essay hopes to illuminate some of the key contours of the island's shifting socio-cultural topography over five critical years of consolidation. Through the lenses offered by these two travelling writers, internal and external forces appear to propel revolutionary Cuba beyond a liminal period of archipelagic flux towards a more determinedly insular and strictly structured archetype by the mid-1960s
Existentialism · Ideology · Liminality · Political science · Politics · Rite of passage · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Cuban History and Society · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |