@article{ref1,
title="Arrivals and Farewells: The Dynamics of Cuban Homespace through African Mythology in Two Eleggua Poems by Nancy Morejón",
journal="Hispania (AATSP)",
year="2000",
author="Feracho, Lesley",
volume="83",
number="1",
pages="51-58",
abstract="In &quot;Los ojos de eleggua&quot; and &quot;Cuento la despedida&quot; from the collection Richard trajo su flauta, the poet Nancy Morejón's use of references to the Afro-Cuban god Eleggua and Afro-Cuban rites in a New World context represents what literary critic Brathwaite has called &quot;the literature of reconnection&quot;-the most dynamic interaction of an individual with African heritage. In &quot;Los ojos de eleggua,&quot; the individual reconnection with Africa is only temporarily balanced, while &quot;Cuento la despedida&quot; symbolically presents Afro-Cuban religion as ultimately the most effective stabilizing force. In both poems, the incorporation of Afro-Cuban religion into a privatized, New World context symbolically creates a spatialized poetics of Cubanness on a personal and national level, resulting in a dynamics of the &quot;Cuban homespace.&quot;<p />",
language="",
issn="0018-2133",
doi="10.2307/346113",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/346113"
}