{"product_id":"diversion-9781479846146","title":"Diversion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular\/American Culture Association \u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Association\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina\/o Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA re-examination of the Cuban diaspora through the lens of popular culture. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by showing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. No longer a conservative Republican voting bloc, the majority of Cubans today want more engagement with the island instead of less. Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of immigrants who arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. \u003cbr\u003eTo probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social log\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA must-read. Students of Latina\/o and Latin America alike will find themselves thinking hard while laughing along. -- New West Indian Guide\u003cbr\u003eA highly original and vital contribution to the cultural and scholarly activity of the contemporary Cuban diaspora in the U.S., Lagunas urgent study takes up what is always deferred: Cuban America in the here-and-now, the wondrous difficulty of Miami, and an ongoing sense of Cuban migration that refuses to stay put. This book is a critical pause button on expedient narratives about Cubas transition. It insists on the complicated comedy, the cynical edges, and the aerating necessity of laughter by the actual people that live and move between the island and elsewhere. -- Alexandra T. Vazquez,author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Lagunas book walks into an MLA cash bar, and the bartender says, Your arguments a joke.In this field-defining work, Laguna shows that laughter, joshing, and punch lines (in short, our indefatigablejodedera) constitute Cuban culture in its movements around the U.S. and even on return trips to the island. Stand-up, radio shows, festivals, and social media cut across the classic Cuban exile in the art and performance of post-1990s Cuban migrants. Laguna dazzles us with such an inventory to deliver a singular notion: Even in dislocation, creativity cant help but crack you up. -- Antonio López,author of Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409076199767,"sku":"9781479846146","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479846146.jpg?v=1730505351","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diversion-9781479846146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}