EMOTIONAL INHERITANCE IN PILAR’S MATURING PROCESS IN CRISTINA GARCÍA’S SOÑAR EN CUBANO
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze Dreaming in Cuban as a coming of age text, in which the maturing process is determined by self-awareness as well as the accumulation of emotional capital. Using a theoretical framework of affects and emotions, the author identifies the emotional legacies received by the main character to show this contradiction is transformed into emotional capital. It is shown how this transformation is possible by choosing empathy as the pivotal point of the emotional structure, and how it is through the social value given to empathy in this historic moment, that the protagonist can mature, while restoring family ties.Keywords:
Cuban literature, Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban, bildungsroman, feminine, emotional capitalReferences
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