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Bridges to Cuba = [electronic resource] :Puentes a Cuba / Ruth Behar, editor.

Contributor(s): Behar, Ruth, 1956- [editor,, writer of introduction.] | Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015] 2015)Edition: 20th anniversary edition.Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 421 pages) :) illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780472121892; 0472121898.Subject(s): Cuban Americans -- Literary collections | Cubans -- United States -- Literary collections | American literature -- Cuban American authors | Cuba -- Civilization | Cuba -- Relations -- United States | United States -- Relations -- Cuba | Cuba -- Relations -- United States -- Literary collections | United States -- Relations -- Cuba -- Literary collectionsGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 810.8/08687291 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Introduction to the 20th anniversary edition / Ruth Behar -- Introduction to the original edition / Ruth Behar -- 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. Perez, 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-Valdes -- Soil; After papa ... / Carilda Oliver Labra -- Contradictions, pluralism, and dialogue : an interview with Rene 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 Estevez -- Lunch / Jose Kozer -- Vigía : the endless publications of Matanzas / María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estevez, and Alfredo Zaldívar -- Three mambos and a son montuno / Gustavo Perez 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.
Summary: An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to the 20th anniversary edition / Ruth Behar -- Introduction to the original edition / Ruth Behar -- 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. Perez, 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-Valdes -- Soil; After papa ... / Carilda Oliver Labra -- Contradictions, pluralism, and dialogue : an interview with Rene 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 Estevez -- Lunch / Jose Kozer -- Vigía : the endless publications of Matanzas / María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estevez, and Alfredo Zaldívar -- Three mambos and a son montuno / Gustavo Perez 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.

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

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