Let's hear their voices : Cuban American writers of the second generation / edited by Iraida H. López and Eliana S. Rivero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López, Iraida H., editor.

Rivero, Eliana S., editor.

Series:

SUNY series in multiethnic literature

SUNY series in multiethnic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Cuban American authors.

American literature.

Cuban Americans--Literary collections.

Cuban Americans.

Cuba--Literary collections.

Cuba.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 157 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Cuban American writers of the second generation

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban-American writers of the "second generation"--writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents who either fled the island after 1959 or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural US. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama and provides an overview of Cuban-American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors--including President Obama's Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco--the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The editors (Iraida H. López and Eliana S. Rivero), prefatory note

Iraida H. López, "Looking back while forging ahead: an introduction"

Richard Blanco : Mail for mamá"; "La bella dama of little Havana"; "Cooking with mamá in Maine"; "5:00 am in Cuba"; "Matters of the sea"; "Listening to mermaids"

Ana Menéndez : "The death of Lenin García"

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés: "Cienfuegos, pearl of the south"

Adrian Castro: "Some guayaberas spell nostalgia" ; "Bilingual bicultural by USA"; "Cuchillo de doble filo (I)"; "The sound of one immigrant clapping"; "Itutu sankofa 2003"; "Prayer for naming ceremony"; "Father above, mother below, the hanging tree"

Robert Arellano: "Merienda en mérica"

Chantel Acevedo: "The child hero's lament"

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas: "Bird in the hand"; "Notes on returning to San Francisco twenty-five years later"

Vanessa Garcia: "This is not a neon sign"

Derek Palacio: "Home to our blood"

Gabriela Garcia: "Other Leticia"

Authors' bios

Editors' bios.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438477091

1438477090

9781438477084

1438477082

OCLC:

1085621304