Acknowledgments Introduction Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch Part One*The Literature 1. The Spell of the Hyphen Gustavo Perez Firmat 2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menendez's and Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Photographs Isabel Alvarez Borland 3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American Fiction Adriana Mendez Rodenas 4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban Diaspora Iraida H. Lopez 5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernandez's Major Fictions Jorge Febles 6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Perez Firmat's Next Year in Cuba William Luis 7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It Right Eliana Rivero Part Two*The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual Arts Lynette M. F. Bosch 9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist Criticism Mark E. Denaci 10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of Exile Carol Damian 11. Cuban American Identity and Art Jorge J. E. Gracia 12. Cuban Art in the Diaspora Andrea O'Reilly Herrera About the Editors About the Contributors Index
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.
"Addressing multiple issues pertaining to Cubanness within US mainstream society, these essays offer a comprehensive survey of representative Cuban American authors, most of whom write in English, and artists." - CHOICE
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