Mapping the Cuban Condition in Fernando Ortiz's Un catauro de cubanismos

Abstract

Explores the idiom-identity complex in Cuba in the first three decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on an emblematic catalog of the idiomatic raw material of the Cuban language community: Fernando Ortiz's vernacular dictionary, 'Un Catauro de cubanismos' from 1923. Author considers the critical complex of history, geography, and identity within Ortiz's dictionary.

Keywords

• Cuba
• Spanish language
• linguistics
• lexicography
• cultural identity
• cultural history
• national identity