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Heart:Cubanidad,Cubaneo,Cubanía\n\nPérez-Firmat,Gustavo                                 \nhttps//scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/A-Vilingness-of-the-Heart-Cubanidad/991031447754202976/filesAndLinkszindex=0  \n\n| Pérez-Firmat,G.(1997).A Willingness of the Heart:Cubanidad,Cubaneo,Cubanía.  \u003Cbr>https://scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/A-Willingness-of-the-Heart-Cubanidad/9  \u003Cbr>91031447754202976   |\n| --- |\n\nPlease do not remove this page  \nA Willingness of the Heart:Cubanidad,Cubaneo,Cubania  \nGustavo Pérez-FirmatCSA Occasional Paper Series,Vol.2,No.7October 1,1997  \nOPS EditorJuan Carlos Espinosa,University of Miami  \nOPS Advisory Board  \nLuis Aguilar León,Georgetown University(Emeritus)  \nGraciella Cruz-Taura,Florida AtlanticUniversity  \nJosé Manuel Hernández,Georgetown University(Emeritus)  \nIrving Louis Horowitz,Rutgers University  \nAntonio Jorge,Florida InternationalUniversity  \nArmando Lago,Association for the Studyof the Cuban Economy  \nLesbia Orta Varona,University of Miami  \nJaime Suchlicki,  \nUniversity of Miami  \n# Cuban Studies AssociationOccasional Paper Series\n\nVolume 2,Number 7October 1,1997  \nA Willingness ofthe Heart:Cubanidad,Cubaneo,Cubania  \nGustavo Pérez-Firmat  \nDuke University  \n# A Willingness of the Heart:Cubanidad,Cubaneo,Cubania\n\nby Gustavo Perez-Firmat¹  \nSome time ago I was trying to translate into Spanish something that I hadwritten originally in English,when I came across the phrase,“the facts of life.”After scrolling my mental thesaurus for a while and not finding anything thatsounded even remotely like Spanish,I turned to my reference shelf and,afterruffling around in several dictionaries,finally located the phrase in a book ofidioms.It turns out that in Spanish the facts of life are called “Los misterios de lavida.”Think about that:the same basic biological drives that for the English-speaking world are plain and simple facts,for us are nothing less than enigmas,conundrums,mysteries  \nThis curious cultural difference certainly helps to explain a few of facts of myupbringing---and perhaps of yours to---but I want to use it here as the startingpoint for my remarks on the theme of this symposium,the relationship betweenplace and nationality,for it seems to me that for anybody who has lived away fromhis or her homeland as long as many of us have,the ascription of a nationalidentity must be both a fact and a mystery.A fact because most Cuban exiles,émigrés and expatriates reject hyphenated or pan-ethnic labels---Cuban-American,Hispanic,Latin---in favor of the designation of nationality,which of course to usis not simple cubano,but rather cubiche,cubachón,cubanazo,cubanita and cubanito(sí  \n1  \nseiores).²And yet it remains a mystery how people who have lived all or most oftheir lives in the United States or Spain or,Puerto Rico can continue to claim thenationality of a country that,in some cases,they have never even seen.  \nWhat I want to do this afternoon is share with you how I have explained thisparadox to myself---how I have tried to reconcile the mystery of my nationalitywith the reality of long-term---I would say,chronic---exile.But before doing so,Iwant to make clear that I will not be speaking to as an expert in Cuban studies,which I'm not,or as a professor of literature,which I only pretend to be.Instead,what I will sketch is a very personal answer to a very personal question.I speakonly as someone who,like many of you,has been haunted by a yearning forwholeness,or,said differently,by the need to integrate the Cuban condition witha life on the hyphen.  \nLet me begin by noting that there are at least three different terms for theCuban condition---cubanidad,cubania,and cubaneo.Although all these words aretranslated into English as “Cubanness,”and although all three may be taken asmarkers of nationality,they refer to sometimes overlapping but generally distinctareas of experience.  \nCubanidad  \nOf the three 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