This essay explores the underrepresentation of Cuban American literature in Latin@ literary studies, probing into possible explanations for its marginalization in the field. I call attention to scholarship that has tended to portray Cuban American writing as fundamentally different from other Latin@ literatures with respect to politics, ideology, and historical trajectory. I then challenge such critical approaches by foregrounding the expansion and diversity of the Cuban American corpus, which can no longer be viewed as primarily exile-oriented, politically conservative, or racially homogeneous. I highlight the importance of scholarly work across latinidades that includes Cuban American writing in conversations about transnational and diasporic identity, the rewriting of American literary history, and intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. I propose that the study of postmemory and narrative inheritance in Cuban American and other Latin@ literatures offers compelling evidence of the significant interconnections that link these diverse works.

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编织更大的网络：拉丁@叙事中的古巴裔美国人写作

本文探讨了拉丁@文学研究中古巴裔美国文学的代表性不足，探讨了其在该领域边缘化的可能解释。我提请注意学术界，它倾向于将古巴裔美国人的写作描绘成在政治、意识形态和历史轨迹方面与其他拉丁@文学有着根本的不同。然后，我通过突出古巴裔美国人语料库的扩张和多样性来挑战这些批判性方法，这些语料库不再主要被视为流亡导向、政治上保守或种族同质。我强调跨拉丁美洲的学术工作的重要性，其中包括在关于跨国和侨民身份的对话中的古巴裔美国人写作、美国文学史的改写以及种族、性别和性行为的交集。