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Cuban-American Literature and Art

Negotiating Identities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvIsabel Alvarez Borland,Lynette M. F. Bosch

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Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.This groundbreaking 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-02-12
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Antal sidor234
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791493731

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Isabel Alvarez Borland is Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at State University of New York College at Geneseo and author of Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Together, they are the coeditors (with Jorge J. E. Gracia) of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIsabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. BoschPart One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the HyphenGustavo Pérez Firmat2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s PhotographsIsabel Alvarez Borland3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American FictionAdriana Méndez Rodenas4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban DiasporaIraida H. López5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major FictionsJorge Febles6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in CubaWilliam Luis7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It RightEliana RiveroPart Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual ArtsLynette M. F. Bosch9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist CriticismMark E. Denaci10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of ExileCarol Damian11. Cuban American Identity and ArtJorge J. E. Gracia12. Cuban Art in the DiasporaAndrea O’Reilly HerreraAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex