Behar, Ruth
The Portable Island
1. After the Bridges
Ruth Behar
2. Our Memories, Ourselves
Lucía M. Suárez
Part I. En La Maleta: With a Suitcase in Our Hands
3. Wherever That May Be
Richard Blanco
4. I Will Die in Paris in the Sudden Rain
Verónica Pérez Konina
5. Exile and Bougainvillea
José Kozer
6. The Land Is in Me
Damaris Calderón
7. Notes on the Movement of Trains in Germany
Carlos Aguilera Chang
8. Easter Sunday and Lake Waban: Two Poems
Nancy Morejón
9. Avon Calling
Nely Galán
Part II.
10. They Took Me to the Movies While My Mother Packed Her Bag
Rolando Estévez
11. Other Roads to Santiago
Laura Ruiz Montes
12. “That’s My Theme: The Human Adventure.” An Interview with Ena Lucía Portela
Iraida H. López
13. From Havana to Mexico City: Generation, Diaspora, and Borderland
Rafael Rojas
14. Josefina the Traveler: Ceremony for a Desperate Actress (
Abilio Estévez
15. Letter to Enrique Saínz, or, On Imaginary Conversions
Jorge Luis Arcos
Part III.
16. In the Middle of Nowhere
Nara Araújo
17. The Woman Who Wanted Bridges
Ruth Behar
18. Piedra Jaimanitas
Rosa Lowinger
19. Going Home Via Africa and Cayo Hueso
Alan West-Durán
20. Writing from Babylon
Pedro Pérez Sarduy
21. The Convergence of Time: Being Cuban in the Present Tense
María de los Angeles Torres
Part IV.
22. Citizen of a Certain World
Karla Suárez
23. My Repeating Island
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
24. A Cuban Dorothy
Eliana Rivero
25. Becoming Cuba-Rican
Jorge Duany
26. Crossing Borders: Notes on Forgetting
Mabel Cuesta
27. Cuba in my Heart: A Geo-Emotional Condition
Lucía M. Suárez
Part V.
28. Waiting
Ruth Behar
29.
Rolando Estévez
Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, general, Latin American Culture
- Editor
- Behar, Ruth
- Suárez, Lucía M.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- New Concepts in Latino American Cultures
- Page amount
- 274 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230616158
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-60477-3