Isabel Alvarez Borland & Lynette M. F. Bosch 
Cuban-American Literature and Art [PDF ebook] 
Negotiating Identities

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.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments



Introduction


Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch




Part One•The Literature



1. The Spell of the Hyphen


Gustavo Pérez Firmat



2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Photographs


Isabel Alvarez Borland



3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American Fiction


Adriana Méndez Rodenas



4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban Diaspora


Iraida H. López



5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major Fictions


Jorge Febles



6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez 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

Despre autor

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.