“Guantánamo and the Border”
3-530 EST, in English
As the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base enters a new chapter in its history as a detention site, with Cubans among the migrants who have recently been held there, this lecture explores relationships between the base and Cuba that have taken shape over the past three decades. Although separated by a land-mined fence-line that it is both perilous and illegal to cross, and steeped in political hostilities that justify a language of border protection, the base and Cuba occupy common ground. The literature, art and testimony of detainees held at the base and of Cubans living nearby maps Guantánamo not as divided territory but as a borderland region: one that shares a natural environment, a marking of human lives by isolation, and a privileging of compassion as a primary mode of relating to the unknown
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