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Synopsis
The use of the word palimpsests in the title of this work has double meaning in regards to its study of recent Cuban history and its interpretation. It refers at once to the way Cuban history is understood by Cubans in overlapping narratives of patriot and exile, as well as to the way Quiroga (Spanish and Portuguese, Emory U.) moves back and forth in his treatment, migrating "from semiotics to history, from history to fiction, from the personal to the political, from the particular to the collective, from past to present, and from archive to its dispersion." Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR