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

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

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Other Authors: Alvarez-Borland, Isabel, Bosch, Lynette M. F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Series:SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The spell of the hyphen / Gustavo Pérez Firmat
  • Figures of identity: Ana Menédez's and Guillermo Cabrera Infante's photographs / Isabel Alvarez Borland
  • Engendering the nation: the mother/daughter plot in Cuban American fiction / Adriana Méndez Rodenas
  • Reading lives in installments: autobiographical essays of women from the Cuban diaspora / Iraida H. López
  • Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández's major fictions / Jorge Febles
  • Exile, memories, and identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat's Next year in Cuba / William Luis
  • Writing in Cuban, living as other: Cuban American women writers getting it right / Eliana Rivero
  • From the Vanguaridia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American identity in the visual arts / Lynette M.F. Bosch
  • Challenging orthodoxies: Cuban American art and postmodernist criticism / Mark E. Denaci
  • Cuban artists and the irony of exile / Carol Damian
  • Cuban American identity and art / Jorge J.E. Gracia
  • Cuban art in the diaspora / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera.