Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event

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Producer

Sebastian Garcia

Description

In Part 1 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Alexis Castellanos, an author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and a panelist at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).

Sebastian structured this specific episode on Alexis Castellanos’ Isla to Island, a wordless graphic novel grounded by her personal family history and the history of Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan). By analyzing such a historic event through the medium of fiction, Sebastian argued that this is one of the most unique Knights HistoryCast episodes of all time. Naturally, their conversation expanded to what she talked about during her panel presentation in Panel One, Day 1 of the event that featured “internationally renowned scholars that discussed the political, historical, and cultural legacy of Operación Pedro Pan (1960-1962).” (https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/)

To purchase Isla to Island (strongly recommend), check out: https://islatoisland.com/.

To find out more about Alexis and her professional work, check out her website at https://alexiscastellanos.com/

Narrator

Sebastian Garcia

Interviewer

Sebastian Garcia

Interviewee

Alexis Castellanos

Date Created

5-28-2023

Keywords

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Subjects

History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Cuba, Operation Peter Pan, Operación Pedro Pan, Pedro Pan, Cuban history, Cubans, Cuban-American, Cuban-American history, US-Cuban history, US-Cuba relations, child exodus, Cuba’s child exodus, The Cuban Diaspora, Isla to Island, Isla, Island, 20th century history, cultural history, Cuban culture, historical legacies, legacy, Pedro Pan legacy, Latin American history, Immigration, Immigration history, minors, refugees, exiles, displaced persons, 90 miles, Freedom Flights, Mariel Boatlift, Special Period, Cuban emigration, Cuban immigration, waves, Cuban exodus, Fidel Castro, Catholicism, Catholics, foster families, Western Hemisphere, New York, Miami, Brooklyn, modern history, US history, graphic novel, wordless novel, historical fiction, fiction, stories, medium, colors, symbolism, family history, personal history, Marisol, Alexis Castellanos, author, illustrator, children’s book, children’s stories, Latin American literature, Hispanic literature

Length of Episode

54:59

Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event


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