López / Rivero Let's Hear Their Voices

Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7710-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

López, Iraida H.

Rivero, Eliana S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Preface
Iraida H. López and Eliana S. Rivero

Introduction: Looking Back While Forging Ahead
Iraida H. López

Richard Blanco
Mail for Mama
La Bella Dama of Little Havana
Cooking with Mama in Maine
5:00 AM in Cuba
Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar
Listening to Mermaids

Ana Menéndez
The Death of Lenin Garcia

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Cienfuegos, Pearl of the South

Adrian Castro
Some Guayaberas Spell Nostalgia
Bilingual Bicultural by USA
Cuchillo de doble filo (I)
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping
Itutu Sankofa 2003
Prayer for Naming Ceremony
Father Above, Mother Below, the Hanging Tree

Robert Arellano
Merienda en merica

Chantel Acevedo
The Child Hero’s Lament

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Bird in the Hand
Notes on Returning to San Francisco Twenty-Five Years Later

Vanessa Garcia
This Is Not a Neon Sign

Derek Palacio
Home to Our Blood

Gabriela Garcia
Other Leticia

Contributors
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

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.