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Title The portable island : Cubans at home in the world / edited by Ruth Behar and Lucía M. Suárez
Edition 1st ed
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations
Series New concepts in Latino American cultures
New directions in Latino American cultures
New concepts in Latino American cultures.
New directions in Latino American cultures.
Contents After the bridges / Ruth Behar -- Our memories, ourselves / Lucía M. Suárez -- Wherever that may be / Richard Blanco -- I will die in Paris in the sudden rain / Verónica Pérez Konina (translated by David Frye) -- Exile and bougainvillea / José Kozer (translated by Mark Weiss) -- The land is in me / Damaris Calderón (translated by David Frye) -- Notes on the movement of trains in Germany / Carlos Aguilera Chang (translated by David Frye) -- Avon calling / Nely Galán -- They took me to the movies while my mother packed her bag and other poems / Rolando Estévez (translated by David Frye) -- Other roads to Santiago and other poems / Laura Ruiz Montes (translated by David Frye) -- "That's my theme : the human adventure" : an interview with Ena Lucía Portela / Iraida H. López (translated by David Frye) -- From Havana to Mexico City : generation, diaspora, and borderland / Rafael Rojas (translated by David Frye) -- Josefina the traveler : ceremony for a desperate actress (monologue) / Abilio Estévez (translated by David Frye) -- Letter to Enrique Saínz, or, On imaginary conversions / Jorge Luis Arcos (translated by David Frye) -- In the middle of nowhere / Nara Araújo (translated by David Frye) -- The woman who wanted bridges / Ruth Behar -- Piedra Jaimanitas / Rosa Lowinger -- Going home via Africa and Cayo Hueso / Alan West-Durán -- Writing from Babylon / Pedro Pérez Sarduy (translated by David Frye) -- The convergence of time : being Cuban in the present tense / María de los Angeles Torres -- Citizen of a certain world / Karla Suárez (translated by David Frye) -- My repeating island / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- A Cuban Dorothy / Eliana Rivero -- Becoming Cuba-Rican / Jorge Duany -- Crossing borders : notes on forgetting / Mabel Cuesta (translated by David Frye, Achy Obejas) -- Cuba in my heart : a geo-emotional condition / Lucía M. Suárez -- Waiting / Ruth Behar -- Gerundios para la espera (verbs for waiting) : a visual coda / Rolando Estévez
Summary Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Cubans -- Foreign countries
Exiles -- Cuba
Social & cultural anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Society.
Cubans -- Foreign countries
Exiles
Cuba
Form Electronic book
Author Behar, Ruth, 1956- editor.
Suárez, Lucía M., editor
ISBN 9780230616158
0230616151