By heart/de memoria : Cuban women's journeys in and out of exile / edited by María de los Angeles Torres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torres, María de los Angeles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban American women--Biography.

Cuban American women.

Exiles--Cuba--Biography.

Exiles.

Cuba.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Cuban women's journeys in and out of exile

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.

Summary:

In this moving account of the Cuban revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres's words "This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community." These poets, artists, and scholars represent each post-revolution exile generation. Some left Cuba in the Pedro Pan airlift, some left afterward, some never left at all. Others-like the editor-left as children only to return and leave again, disillusioned with both the exile politics and with Castro's island. Together they testify to the powerful intersections of memory, politics, nation, and exile.

Contents:

The boat / Achy Obejas

Reflections / Liz Balmaseda

Donde los fantasmas bailan guaguancó: Where ghosts dance el guaguancó / María de los Angeles Torres

Not the golden age / Nereida García-Ferraz

From this side of the fish tank / Teresa de Jesús Fernández

Through other looking glasses / Josefina de Diego

La salida: the departure / Mírta Ojíto

The recurring dream / Carmen Díaz

Only fragments of memory / Raquel Mendíeta Costa

Words without borders / Madelín Cámara

Postwar memories / Tania Bruguera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1592130100

1592130119

OCLC:

49903073