Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba
Through personal essays and poetry, short fiction and painting, book reviews, interviews, performance pieces, and hybrid creations of text and image, Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba opens a window onto the meaning of nationality, transnationalism, and homeland in our time. For more than thirty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations have been couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remain in their homeland. Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba celebrates the...
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Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers, and artists celebrate the possibility of overcoming divisions of politics and hate
Introduction1For Ana Veldford21Prayer to Lourdes23Beyond the Rupture: Reconciling with Our Enemies, Reconciling with Ourselves24Miembros Fantasmas / Ghost Limbs44Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity57Silhouette72A House on Shifting Sands76From El Libro Regalado80Finding What Had Been Lost in Plain View85Nothing Lost Will Come Back with the Rain96Repairing Things98"... And There Is Only My Imagination Where Our History Should Be": An Interview with Cristina Garcia102Bridges of the Heart115Ana Mendieta; Before a Mirror; A Chronicle That Swoons before the Immigrant Tree122Two Conversations with Nancy Morejon129Verrazano-Narrows Bridge140Fragments from Cuban Narratives142The Circle of Connections: One Hundred Years of Cuba-U.S. Relations161Epistle to Jose Luis Ferrer (From Havana to Miami)180From My Name (A Family Anti-Elegy)184Cubans Inside and Outside: Dialogue among the Deaf189Dangers of Speaking and Staying Quiet. Language of Silence197El Diario de Miranda / Miranda's Diary198Third Options: Beyond the Border217My Key225Grandmother's Night226Soil; After Papa229Contradictions, Pluralism, and Dialogue: An Interview with Rene Vasquez Diaz232God Doesn't Help Us241Strange Planet244As If in a Game252Performative Identities: Scenes between Two Cubas253Radishes267A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami: Reflections on the Meaning of Underdevelopment and Cultural Change281Landscapes of the Mind292Sunday293Elisa, or The Price of Dreams295Poem for the Woman Who Talks to Herself in the Park300The Wall302Recent Cuban Art: A Portfolio302Between Nightfall and Vengeance: Remembering Reinaldo Arenas305Lunch314Vigia: The Endless Publications of Matanzas316Three Mambos and a Son Montuno323From Going Under: A Cuban-American Fable327"Fronterislena," Border Islander339Cubans and Airports345Knots in the Handkerchief347In the Way of Fortune348Sea's Path349Pilgrims of the Dawn350Carnaval352Pilgrimage to France: The Cuban Painters367Moving374My Life with Fidel Castro: A Soap Opera without Transmitter376The Islands; Letter to a Woman Friend389El Fuego391Queer Times in Cuba394Two Figures on a Bridge416Authors417Artists421
