Cuban-American literature and art [[electronic resource] ] : negotiating identities / / edited by Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M.F. Bosch

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 224 p
• Disciplina: 860
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Cuban American authors - History and criticism; Cuban American art; Cuban Americans - Intellectual life; Identity (Psychology) in art; Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Altri autori: Alvarez-BorlandIsabel BoschLynette M. F
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Cuban-American Literature and Art -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Spell of the Hyphen -- 2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez's and Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Photographs -- 3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American Fiction -- 4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban Diaspora -- 5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández's Major Fictions -- 6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat's Next Year in Cuba -- 7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It Right -- 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban-American Identity in the Visual Arts -- 9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban-American Art and Postmodernist Criticism -- 10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of Exile -- 11. Cuban-American Identity and Art -- 12. Cuban Art in the Diaspora -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cuban-American literature and art
• ISBN: 0-7914-9372-5; 1-4416-1575-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810458103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II