Date of Award
1992
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Fejes, Fred A.
Abstract
In May, 1985, the United States government inaugurated Radio Marti, a broadcast-to-Cuba project with the avowed intent of providing the Cuban people with objective news. In this study I argue that an important though tacit political aim of this project is the reconstruction of Cuban identity. I take a cultural-studies approach in my "situated interpretation" of Radio Marti transmissions, foregrounding the mutual, discursive constitution of meaning and self-understanding. Situating my own voice within the multiple discourses on Cubanness, I note how the transmissions construct the voice of the Cuban exile in Miami and evoke an image of a separated Cuban community. I argue that Radio Marti invites listeners in Cuba to see themselves as belonging to this separated community and to translate the exile sense of loss into political agency directed against Castro and the Cuban government.
Extent
199 p.
Recommended Citation
Saco, Diana., "Voices from the distance: Radio Marti and the (pen)insular construction of Cuban identity" (1992). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 389.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/389
Identifier
FADT14823
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1992.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters