Research Catalog

Title

Home in Florida : Latinx writers and the literature of uprootedness / edited by Anjanette Delgado.

Publication

• Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Delgado, Anjanette

Description

258 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This collection presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.

Alternative Title

Latinx writers and the literature of uprootedness

Subject

• American literature > Hispanic American authors
• Hispanic American literature (Spanish) > Florida > Translations into English
• Displacement (Psychology) in literature
• American literature > Florida
• American literature
• Hispanic American literature (Spanish)
• Florida > Literary collections
• Florida

Genre/Form

• Literary collections.
• Translations.

Language (note)

• Contributions in English (some in translation from the original Spanish).

Contents

Introduction / Anjanette Delgado -- La ciudad mágica / Patricia Engel -- Notes on my present: a contrapuntal ; My macho takes care of me good ; Buen esqueleto / Natalie Scenters-Zapico -- I write to Mami about Florida / Nilsa Ada Rivera -- The cruel country (excerpt 68) ; El olvido / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Rite of passage / Vera ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- The glass tower / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Dolores M. Koch -- Soy de allá, pero vivo aquí / Isvett Verde -- A matter of time / José Ignacio Valenzuela ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- The halfway house (an excerpt) / Guillermo Rosales ; translated by Anna Kushner -- When I was a little Cuban boy ; Translation for Mamá ; Silent family clips / Richard Blanco -- Hialeah, Isla Mía / Liz Balmaseda -- From Las Colinas to Carol City and back : variations on a theme of acculturation / Yaddyra Peralta -- Ziploc / Daniel Reschigna ; translated by Martina Lentino -- Analfabeta ; Wet foot, dry foot, 2002 ; Topography / Caridad Moro-Gronlier -- I came to Miami because I was told this was where my son lived / Legna Rodríguez Iglesias ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- They built a Margaritaville on Hollywood Beach which was once my favorite place in the world and now I can't go back because it's unrecognizable so fuck Jimmy Buffett / Ariel Francisco -- Feliz año nuevo, Connor / Jennine Capó Crucet -- The Miami underground and Nico / Michael García-Juelle -- The many deaths of Fidel / Achy Obejas -- Floridaness / Dainerys Machado Vento -- The apartment / Ana Menéndez -- Those days I spent with Mar / Pedro Median León ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- 38 hours / Javier Lentino ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- Other / Carlos Harrison -- Star power / Alex Segura -- Monster story / Jaquira Díaz -- The ugly dyckling / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Why I called this a translation ; Ofrenda ; How to name a city / Mia Leonin -- Miami is Cuban / Raú Dopico ; translated by Andreína Fernández -- Piercing my daughter's ears in Alabama / Chantel Acevedo -- Consuelo's garden / Aracelis González Asendorf -- Last man on an island / Carlos Pintado -- A whole new world / Amina Lolita Gautier.

Call Number

JFE 22-1258

ISBN

• 9781683402503
• 1683402502

OCLC

1245656725

Title

Home in Florida : Latinx writers and the literature of uprootedness / edited by Anjanette Delgado.

Publisher

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Contributions in English (some in translation from the original Spanish).

Added Author

Delgado, Anjanette, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1258