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Title

Cuban-American literature and art : negotiating identities / edited by Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M.F. Bosch.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Alvarez-Borland, Isabel.
• Bosch, Lynette M. F.

Description

ix, 224 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This groundbreaklng collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups-hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Uniform Title

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Cuban American art
• Cuban Americans > Intellectual life
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The spell of the hyphen / Gustavo Perez Firmat -- 2. Figures of identity : Ana Menendez's and Guillermo Cabrera Infante's photographs / Isabel Alvarez Borland -- 3. Engendering the nation : the mother/daughter plot in Cuban American fiction / Adriana Mendez Rodenas -- 4. Reading lives in installments : autobiographical essays of women from the Cuban diaspora / Iraida H. Lopez -- 5. Am I your worst nightmare? : reading Roberto G. Fernandez's major fictions / Jorge Febles -- 6. Exile, memories, and identities in Gustavo Perez Firmat's Next year in Cuba / William Luis -- 7. Writing in Cuban, living as other : Cuban American women writers getting it right / Eliana Rivero -- 8. From the vanguardia to the United States : Cuban and Cuban American identity in the visual arts / Lynette M. F. Bosch -- 9. Challenging orthodoxies : Cuban American art and postmodernist criticism / Mark E. Denaci -- 10. Cuban artists and the irony of exile / Carol Damian -- 11. Cuban American identity and art / Jorge J. E. Gracia -- 12. Cuban art in the diaspora / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera.

ISBN

• 9780791493731 (alk. paper)
• 0791493733 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008017298
• 40016513471

OCLC

• ocn225535069
• 225535069
• SCSB-5462281

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries