Abstract
[...]according to Rodríguez-Mangual, by placing the Afro-Cuban subject at the center of her narrations, whiteness, instead of blackness, is gazed upon as the "other". [...]Cabrera undertakes an extremely important project: the revision of Cuban history and its culture through creative and imaginative means, thus questioning the empirical foundation of anthropology and placing Afro-Cuban contributions at the core of the literature that describes and portrays the Cuban nation and its national identity. [...]in chapter four The Anthropologist's Exile: Nation and Simulacrum", the author concentrates on the issue of Cuban identity in exile. Despite the fact that Rodriguez-Mangual, includes Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban, focusing her discussion mainly on the displacement of the Cuban exile, it would have been useful to observe how Rodríguez-Monegal's Statements about the creation of an alternative space for marginal subjects could be connected to contemporary literature that is being produce in the last decades.