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The Oval Portrait
Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists
- 218 pages
- English
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About this book
The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado
(Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida RĂos set
a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban
women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a
mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears
in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and
the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." The
result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was "a perfect
vehicle for introspection." As RĂos herself puts it: "The game
requires us to go deep.... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait,
construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult
and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the question:
Which are your favorite lies?" By way of example, Jamila
Medina RĂos writes in her piece: "I know (I have learned it well)
the fate of my grandmother and her aunts, the fate of Maria and
my mother, the blossoms of mythical women and women poets,
of female warriors, of weak women and of the famous. My head
shaved so as not to intimidate her with my abundant hair." The
Oval Portrait has been exquisitely translated into English by
Margaret Randall. As she writes: "In an era of special interest
media and superficial travelogues, I believe The Oval Portrait offers
readers a uniquely profound glimpse of the Cuban psyche."
(Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida RĂos set
a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban
women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a
mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears
in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and
the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." The
result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was "a perfect
vehicle for introspection." As RĂos herself puts it: "The game
requires us to go deep.... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait,
construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult
and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the question:
Which are your favorite lies?" By way of example, Jamila
Medina RĂos writes in her piece: "I know (I have learned it well)
the fate of my grandmother and her aunts, the fate of Maria and
my mother, the blossoms of mythical women and women poets,
of female warriors, of weak women and of the famous. My head
shaved so as not to intimidate her with my abundant hair." The
Oval Portrait has been exquisitely translated into English by
Margaret Randall. As she writes: "In an era of special interest
media and superficial travelogues, I believe The Oval Portrait offers
readers a uniquely profound glimpse of the Cuban psyche."
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Margaret Randall - Translatorâs note
- Soleida RĂos - To be read in solitude: An introductory note
- Jamila Medina RĂos - Beehive in a Dress of Little OvalsâŠ
- Azucena Isabel Plasencia - Sara
- Caridad Atencio - Clouds Within / Clouds Out There
- Laura Ruiz Montes - Half an Hour on the Summit
- Nara Mansur - I Am Not Sleeping Beauty
- Teresita Burgos - Perennial Leaves
- Damaris CalderĂłn - In the Land of In Between, Beaten by the Waters
- Amalia Iduate - The Cat
- Legna RodrĂguez Iglesias - Iâm Easy and Iâm Drunk
- Dazra Novak - The Stalker
- Cirenaica Moreira - The Power of Universal Attraction and French Fries
- Margarita Mateo Palmer - Ănclita de Mamporro Speaks
- Irela Casañas - Descent
- Charo Guerra - Other Memories of J.B.
- Georgina Herrera - Absolved, Madam Mariana
- Adelaida de Juan - The Painting
- Soleida RĂos - The Sentence / AyĂłn Catalog
- Adriana Normand - Arts Theater
- Gina Picart - From Another Skin
- Lourdes GonzĂĄlez - The Voices of Alma Rubens
- Manelic R. Ferret - File
- Yannis Lobaina - Juana of LeĂłn, Thatâs Me
- Ruth Behar - Eternity
- Gertrudis Ortiz - Me, That One, Myself
- Marcela LĂłpez Gravina - I Have Lied, Given Birth, and Loved
- Lizabel MĂłnica - Exercising the Productive EinbildungskraftâŠ
- Basilia PaspatamatĂu - Bad Memory
- Reina MarĂa RodrĂguez - Aurora Borealis
- Soleida RĂos and Jamila M. RĂos - Focus on a Point in the Back and Speak
- LĂa Villares - Hunger for Clarity
- Zurelys LĂłpez Amaya - Annaâs Secret
- Olga Marta PĂ©rez - I Am the One with the Ribbons
- Mylene FernĂĄndez Pintado - SprĂŒngli
- RocĂo Santillana - Havana Glub
- Darsi FernĂĄndez Maceira - Postscript
- Sandra Ramy - My Work is you
- About the Authors
- About the Editor
- About the Translator
- Back Cover