Cuba and the tempest : literature & cinema in the time of diaspora / / Eduardo Gonzalez

• Autore: Gonzalez Eduardo <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 860.9/9206914097291
• Soggetto topico: Cuban literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Exiles' writings, Cuban - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Life after Cuba; part one: THE STAR HUSBAND; one: The Sybil's Voice (Overture); two: Weariness of Work Inextricable (Folktale); three: A Fallen-from-Use Path Taken on the Outskirts of Town (Cartesian Miracle); four: Talking about Beauty and the Beast, She's Both (Crime Scene); part two: NO WEDDING WITHOUT FUNERAL; five: Antonio's Island (The Long Goodbye); six: The Ugly Duchess (Cartoon Odyssey); seven: Amazon I: (Psycho-Analysis); eight: Amazon II: (Vertigo); nine: Orpheus in Vegas (Tabloid); ten: Home Alone ; part three: CUBAN AFTERLIVESeleven: Romantic Penmanship: Friedrich Nietzsche and José Martí in Brotherly Fashion; twelve: 1989: The Year That Never Was; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering an analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, this book looks at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) and Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who left Cuba, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cuba and the tempest
• ISBN: 979-88-908804-5-1; 0-8078-7713-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819416603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Envisioning Cuba.