Bridges to Cuba = Puentes a Cuba

Behar, Ruth, 1956- (Added Author).

Summary: "Groundbreaking anthology of artwork, drama, fiction, interviews, and poetry by authors both within and outside Cuba. Wide, provocative range of perspectives. Highlights include Ruth Behar's introductory and closing essays, interviews with Nancy Morejón, and essays by María de los Angeles Torres and Alan West. Majority of translations by David Frye"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Item details

ISBN: 0472096117
ISBN: 9780472096114
ISBN: 0472066110
ISBN: 9780472066117
Physical Description: print
x, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1995]
Copyright: ©1995

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Reconciliation = Reconciliación. For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal -- Prayer to Lourdes / Ruth Behar -- Beyond the rupture : reconciling with our enemies, reconciling with ourselves / Maria de los Angeles Torres -- Miembros fantasmas = ghost limbs / Teresa Marrero -- Political and cultural cross-dressing : negotiating a second generation Cuban-American identity / Flavio Risech -- Silhouette / Raquel (Kaki) Mendieta Costa -- A house on shifting sands / Flora González Mandri -- From El libro regalado / Emilio Bejel -- Finding what had been lost in plain view / Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok -- Nothing lost will come back with the rain / Victor Fowler Calzada -- Repairing things / Rosa Lowinger -- "--And there is only my imagination where our history should be" : an interview with Cristina Garcia / Iraida H. López -- Bridges of the heart / Pablo Armando Fernández -- Ana Mendieta; before a mirror; a chronicle that swoons before the immigrant tree / Nancy Morejón -- Two conversations with Nancy Morejón / Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez -- Verrazano-Narrows bridge / Jesús J. Barquet -- Fragments from Cuban narartives / Eduardo Aparicio.