Research Catalog

Title

Bridges to Cuba = Puentes a Cuba / Ruth Behar, editor.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Behar, Ruth, 1956-

Description

xv, 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"For fifty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and Cuban-American writing and art celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, and other ties. The book brings together for the first time in English Cuban voices of the second generation, both on the island and in the diaspora. The multivocal and multigenre collection includes both scholarly and creative writing and an impressive range of visual art. Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba opens a window onto the meaning of nationality, transnationalism, and homeland in our time."--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Puentes a Cuba

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• American literature > Cuban American authors
• Cubans > United States > Literary collections
• Cuban Americans > Literary collections
• Art, Cuban > 20th century
• Cuban American art > 20th century
• Art, Cuban
• Civilization
• Cuban American art
• Cuban Americans
• Cubans
• International relations
• United States > Relations > Cuba > Literary collections
• Cuba > Relations > United States > Literary collections
• United States > Relations > Cuba
• Cuba > Relations > United States
• Cuba > Civilization
• Cuba
• United States

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literary collections.

Note

• Date derived from publisher web site.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1: Reconciliation = Reconciliación. For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal -- Prayer to Lourdes / Ruth Behar -- Beyond the rupture : reconciling with our enemies, reconciling with ourselves / Maria de los Angeles Torres -- Miembros fantasmas = ghost limbs / Teresa Marrero -- Political and cultural cross-dressing : negotiating a second generation Cuban-American identity / Flavio Risech -- Silhouette / Raquel (Kaki) Mendieta Costa -- A house on shifting sands / Flora González Mandri -- From El libro regalado / Emilio Bejel -- Finding what had been lost in plain view / Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok -- Nothing lost will come back with the rain / Victor Fowler Calzada -- Repairing things / Rosa Lowinger -- " -- And there is only my imagination where our history should be" : an interview with Cristina Garcia / Iraida H. López -- Bridges of the heart / Pablo Armando Fernández -- Ana Mendieta; before a mirror; a chronicle that swoons before the immigrant tree / Nancy Morejón -- Two conversations with Nancy Morejón / Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez -- Verrazano-Narrows bridge / Jesús J. Barquet -- Fragments from Cuban narartives / Eduardo Aparicio.
• Part 2: Rupture = Ruptura. The circle of connections : one hundred years of Cuba-U.S. relations / Louis A. Pérez, Jr. -- Epistle to Jose Luis Ferrer (from Havana to Miami) / Jorge Luis Arcos -- From my name (a family anti-elegy / Excilia Saldaña -- Cubans inside and outside : dialogue among the deaf / Patricia Boero -- Dangers of speaking and staying quiet ; language of silence / Marilyn Bobes -- El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco -- Third options : beyond the border / Madeline Cámara -- My key / Yanai Manzor -- Grandmother's night / Sonia Rivera-Valdés -- Soil; after papa / Carilda Oliver Labra -- Contradictions, pluralism, and dialogue : an interview with René Vásquez Díaz / Elena M. Martínez -- God doesn't help us / Senel Paz -- Strange planet / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- As if in a game / Roberto Valero -- Performative identities : scenes between two Cubas / Lillian Manzor-Coats -- Radishes / Roberto G. Fernández -- A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami : reflections on the meaning of underdevelopment and cultural change / Juan Leon -- Landscapes of the mind / Carlota Caulfield -- Sunday / Achy Obejas -- Elisa, or The price of dreams / Rita Martín -- Poem for the woman who talks to herself in the park / Lina de Feria -- The wall / María Elena Cruz Varela -- Recent Cuban art : a portfolio.
• Part 3: Remembering = Recuerdos. Between nightfall and vengeance : remembering Reinaldo Arenas / Abilio Estévez -- Lunch / José Kozer -- Vigía : the endless publications of Matanzas / María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estévez, and Alfredo Zaldívar -- Three mambos and a son montuno / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- From going under : a Cuban-American fable / Virgil Suarez -- "Fronterisleña," border islander / Eliana S. Rivero -- Cubans and airports / Teofilo F. Ruiz -- Knots in the handkerchief / Ernesto Santana -- In the way of fortune / Georgina Herrera -- Sea's path / Minerva Salado -- Pilgrims of the dawn / Miguel Barnet -- Carnaval / Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes -- Pilgrimage to France : the Cuban painters / Lourdes Gil -- Moving / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- My life with Fidel Castro : a soap opera without transmitter / Alan West -- The islands : letter to a woman friend / Reina María Rodríguez -- El fuego / Amando Fernández -- Queer times in Cuba / Ruth Behar -- Two figures on a bridge / Zaida del Río.

ISBN

• 0472036637
• 9780472036639
• 9780472121892 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 927382095
• SCSB-11681977

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library