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About this book
Cuban-American writers have been studied primarily within the context of Latino literature as a whole. Seeing a need to distinguish and define this unique literary perspective, Eduardo del Rio selected twelve important well-known authors and conducted interviews. He chose writers who were born in Cuba but have lived in the United States for a significant amount of time and whose works include themes he considers elemental to Cuban-American literature: identity, duality, memory, and exile. But rather than a cohesive, homogeneous group, these conversations unveiled a kaleidoscope of individuality, style, and motive. The authors' bonds to Cuba inform their creative work in vastly different ways, and attempts to categorize their similarities only highlight the range of character and experience within this assemblage of talented writers.
From playwright Dolores Prida to author and literary critic Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat, these voices run the gamut of both genre and personality. In addition to the essential facts of literary accomplishment, the interviews include a wealth of insight into each writer's history, motivations, concerns, and relationship to language. These personal details serve to humanize and illuminate the unique circumstances and realities that have shaped both the authors and their work.
What del Rio has ultimately brought together is a series of intimate sketches that will not only serve as an important reference for any discussion of the literature but will also help readers to develop for themselves a sense of what Cuban-American writing is, and what it is not.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nilo Cruz
Roberto FernĂĄndez
Cristina GarcĂa
Carolina Hospital
Eduardo Machado
Dionisio MartĂnez
Pablo Medina
Achy Obejas
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat
Dolores Prida
Virgil SuĂĄrez
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
From playwright Dolores Prida to author and literary critic Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat, these voices run the gamut of both genre and personality. In addition to the essential facts of literary accomplishment, the interviews include a wealth of insight into each writer's history, motivations, concerns, and relationship to language. These personal details serve to humanize and illuminate the unique circumstances and realities that have shaped both the authors and their work.
What del Rio has ultimately brought together is a series of intimate sketches that will not only serve as an important reference for any discussion of the literature but will also help readers to develop for themselves a sense of what Cuban-American writing is, and what it is not.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nilo Cruz
Roberto FernĂĄndez
Cristina GarcĂa
Carolina Hospital
Eduardo Machado
Dionisio MartĂnez
Pablo Medina
Achy Obejas
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat
Dolores Prida
Virgil SuĂĄrez
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Publisher
University of Arizona PressYear
2022Print ISBN
9780816528066, 9780816527144eBook ISBN
9780816548606Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Nilo Cruz
- Roberto FernĂĄndez
- Cristina GarcĂa
- Carolina Hospital
- Eduardo Machado
- Dionisio MartĂnez
- Pablo Medina
- Achy Obejas
- Ricardo Pau-Llosa
- Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat
- Dolores Prida
- Virgil SuĂĄrez
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography