Let's Hear Their Voices

Iraida H. López is Professor of Spanish and Latino/a and Latin American Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey and author of Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora. Eliana S. Rivero is Professor Emerita in the Spanish and Portuguese department at the University of Arizona and coeditor (with the Latina Feminist Group collective) of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIraida H. López and Eliana S. RiveroIntroduction: Looking Back While Forging AheadIraida H. LópezRichard Blanco Mail for MamaLa Bella Dama of Little HavanaCooking with Mama in Maine5:00 AM in CubaMatters of the Sea / Cosas del mar Listening to MermaidsAna Menéndez The Death of Lenin GarciaCecilia Rodríguez Milanés Cienfuegos, Pearl of the SouthAdrian Castro Some Guayaberas Spell NostalgiaBilingual Bicultural by USACuchillo de doble filo (I)The Sound of One Immigrant ClappingItutu Sankofa 2003Prayer for Naming CeremonyFather Above, Mother Below, the Hanging TreeRobert Arellano Merienda en mericaChantel Acevedo The Child Hero’s LamentJorge Ignacio Cortiñas Bird in the HandNotes on Returning to San Francisco Twenty-Five Years LaterVanessa Garcia This Is Not a Neon SignDerek Palacio Home to Our BloodGabriela Garcia Other LeticiaContributorsWorks Cited

"The selections chosen are excellent across the board. Collectively, they give a sense of the directions in which second-generation Cuban American writing is moving, as well as of its abiding concern with the country of origin of the first generation. The writing is impressive, strong, and compelling." — Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas