Cubana : contemporary fiction by Cuban women / edited by Mirta Yáñez ; foreword by Ruth Behar ; translated by Dick Cluster and Cindy Schuster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yáñez, Mirta, 1947-

Cluster, Dick, 1947-

Schuster, Cindy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Cuban.

Cuban fiction--Women authors.

Cuban fiction.

Cuban fiction--20th century.

Women authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxi, 213 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1998]

Summary:

Until recently, the combination of a Cuban old boys' network and an ideological emphasis on "tough" writing worked to keep fiction written by Cuban women largely unknown and unread. Cubana, the U.S. edition of a groundbreaking 1996 anthology of Cuban women's fiction, introduces these once-ignored writers to a new audience. Havana editor and author Mirta Yanez unites sixteen stories into an impressive collection that reveals the exciting strength and variety of fiction by contemporary Cuban women -- and offers a glimpse inside Cuba at this time of extreme economic difficulty and artistic renaissance.

Many of these stories focus pointedly on economic and social conditions. Others -- Magaly Sanchez's erotic fantasy "Catalina in the Afternoons" and Mylene Fernandez Pintado's psychologically deft "Anhedonia: A Story in Two Women" -- reveal a nascent Cuban feminism. The Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas recreates the strange dual identity of the immigrant, while experimental stories like the playful and savvy "The Urn and the Name (A Light-hearted Tale)", written by Ena Lucia Portela, reveal the vitality of the formalist tradition in Cuba. And Rosa Ileana Boudet's "Potosi I I: Address Unknown" is a romantic paean to a time of youth, passion, and revolution -- and perhaps a combination love letter and hate mail to the famous Cuban writer-in-exile Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0807083364

0807083372

OCLC:

37928562