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Cubanisimo! : the Vintage Book of contemporary Cuban literature / edited and with an introduction by Cristina Garcia.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Vintage, 2003.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xxii, 378 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0385721374 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 860.8/097291 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ7383.5.E5 C83 2003
Contents:
Introduction / Cristina Garcia -- "Love in the City" / Jose Marti -- from War Diaries / Jose Marti -- "Tobacco and Sugar" from Cuban Counterpoint / Fernando Ortiz -- A View from the Mangrove / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- The Hill of Mambiala / Lydia Cabrera -- "Eternity" / Dulce Maria Loynaz -- "Certainty" / Dulce Maria Loynaz -- Prologue from The Kingdom of This World / Alejo Carpentier -- Journey Back to the Source / Alejo Carpentier -- "Life in the Woods" from Biography of a Runaway Slave / Miguel Barnet -- Lorca the Rainmaker Visits Havana / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- "I Heard Her Sing" from Three Trapped Tigers / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- "Love, Attributed City" / Nancy Morejon -- The Walk / Calvert Casey -- Chapter VIII from Paradiso / Jose Lezama Lima -- "Self-portrait of the other" / Heberto Padilla -- "A prayer for the end of the century" / Heberto Padilla -- The Founders: Alfonso / Lourdes Casal -- As I Am ... As I Was / Lino Novas Calvo -- Josephine Baker in Cuba / Nicolas Guillen -- The Face / Virgilio Pinera -- Six Mambos from Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way / Gustavo Perez-Firmat -- from From Cuba with a Song / Severo Sarduy -- from Before Night Falls / Reinaldo Arenas -- The Ivory Trader and the Red Melons / Zoe Valdes -- "The Bakery Administrator's Daughter": from The Lazarus Rumba / Ernesto Mestre -- "Love Song for Difficult Times" / Maria Elena Cruz Varela -- "The Exterminating Angel" / Maria Elena Cruz Varela -- from Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire / Jose Manuel Prieto -- In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd / Ana Menendez -- "What the Body Told" / Rafael Campo -- Notes about the Authors -- A Personal Discography.
Summary: Publisher description: Cubanisimo! is the first book to gather Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts in one volume that summarizes the richness and depth of a great national literature. From the turn of the century to the present, from Havana to Miami, New York, Mexico City, Madrid and beyond, the spirit and diversity of Cuban culture converge in one vibrant literary jam session. Cristina Garcia has ingeniously grouped her selections according to "the music of their sentences" into five sections named for Cuban dance styles. Cubanisimo! begins with an elegant classical danzon section that includes poems and diaries from the father of Cuban literature, Jose Marti, and Antonio Benitez-Rojo's hallucinatory story A View from the Mangrove. As it moves to more contemporary dances, the book offers, among other delights, the essay by Alejo Carpentier that was the first to define magical realism; the scandalously sensual eighth chapter from Jose Lezama Lima's controversial 1966 novel Paradiso; Ana Menendez's Little Havana-inspired story, In Cuba I was a German Shepherd; a passage from Reinaldo Arenas's acclaimed memoir Before Night Falls and six witty musings-or mambos-on language from Gustavo Perez Firmat's Life on the Hyphen. A brilliant introduction for readers who want to explore Cuban literature, as well as a collectible volume for those who love Cuba, Cubanisimo! is a celebration of Cuban culture, from the island to its farthest flung voices.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ7383.5 .E5 C83 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000695832

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Cristina Garcia -- "Love in the City" / Jose Marti -- from War Diaries / Jose Marti -- "Tobacco and Sugar" from Cuban Counterpoint / Fernando Ortiz -- A View from the Mangrove / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- The Hill of Mambiala / Lydia Cabrera -- "Eternity" / Dulce Maria Loynaz -- "Certainty" / Dulce Maria Loynaz -- Prologue from The Kingdom of This World / Alejo Carpentier -- Journey Back to the Source / Alejo Carpentier -- "Life in the Woods" from Biography of a Runaway Slave / Miguel Barnet -- Lorca the Rainmaker Visits Havana / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- "I Heard Her Sing" from Three Trapped Tigers / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- "Love, Attributed City" / Nancy Morejon -- The Walk / Calvert Casey -- Chapter VIII from Paradiso / Jose Lezama Lima -- "Self-portrait of the other" / Heberto Padilla -- "A prayer for the end of the century" / Heberto Padilla -- The Founders: Alfonso / Lourdes Casal -- As I Am ... As I Was / Lino Novas Calvo -- Josephine Baker in Cuba / Nicolas Guillen -- The Face / Virgilio Pinera -- Six Mambos from Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way / Gustavo Perez-Firmat -- from From Cuba with a Song / Severo Sarduy -- from Before Night Falls / Reinaldo Arenas -- The Ivory Trader and the Red Melons / Zoe Valdes -- "The Bakery Administrator's Daughter": from The Lazarus Rumba / Ernesto Mestre -- "Love Song for Difficult Times" / Maria Elena Cruz Varela -- "The Exterminating Angel" / Maria Elena Cruz Varela -- from Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire / Jose Manuel Prieto -- In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd / Ana Menendez -- "What the Body Told" / Rafael Campo -- Notes about the Authors -- A Personal Discography.

Publisher description: Cubanisimo! is the first book to gather Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts in one volume that summarizes the richness and depth of a great national literature. From the turn of the century to the present, from Havana to Miami, New York, Mexico City, Madrid and beyond, the spirit and diversity of Cuban culture converge in one vibrant literary jam session. Cristina Garcia has ingeniously grouped her selections according to "the music of their sentences" into five sections named for Cuban dance styles. Cubanisimo! begins with an elegant classical danzon section that includes poems and diaries from the father of Cuban literature, Jose Marti, and Antonio Benitez-Rojo's hallucinatory story A View from the Mangrove. As it moves to more contemporary dances, the book offers, among other delights, the essay by Alejo Carpentier that was the first to define magical realism; the scandalously sensual eighth chapter from Jose Lezama Lima's controversial 1966 novel Paradiso; Ana Menendez's Little Havana-inspired story, In Cuba I was a German Shepherd; a passage from Reinaldo Arenas's acclaimed memoir Before Night Falls and six witty musings-or mambos-on language from Gustavo Perez Firmat's Life on the Hyphen. A brilliant introduction for readers who want to explore Cuban literature, as well as a collectible volume for those who love Cuba, Cubanisimo! is a celebration of Cuban culture, from the island to its farthest flung voices.

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