Cuba A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Bardach, Ann Louise

• ISBN13: 9781883513115
• ISBN10: 1883513111
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Whereabouts Press

Summary

Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this volume -- some of which appear in English for the first time -- will take you on an odyssey through the country's rich past to its dynamic present, where it is poised at the brink of immense change. Arranged by the areas of Cuba, they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet.

Table of Contents

Map	vi
Preface	xi
HAVANA
Havanasis	1	(2)
Richard Blanco
Strawberry and Chocolate	3	(12)
Senel Paz
Paradiso	15	(9)
Jose Lezama Lima
In the Cold of the Malecon	24	(4)
Antonio Jose Ponte
Life on the Rooftops	28	(7)
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
My Aunt Leocadia, Love, and the Lower Paleolithic	35	(16)
Calvert Casey
Internal Monologue on a Corner in Havana	51	(5)
Josefina de Diego
My Heroic Birth	56	(5)
Zoe Valdes
The Dark Night of Ramon Yendia	61	(35)
Lino Novas Calvo
Mascaras	96	(10)
Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Thine Is the Kingdom	106	(11)
Abilio Estevez
The Messenger	117	(9)
Mayra Montero
PLAYAS DEL ESTE
Ocean Blue	126	(7)
Cristina Garcia
MATANZAS PROVINCE
The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of Culture	133	(4)
Maria Eugenia Alegria Nunez
Zapata	137	(5)
Pablo Medina
Her Mother's House	142	(23)
Ana Menendez
EL CAMPO
Don Cayetano, the Unreliable	165	(11)
Alfonso Hernandez Cata
TRINIDAD
Not the Truth, Not a Lie	176	(7)
Uva de Aragon
HOLGUIN
Old Rosa	183	(8)
Reinaldo Arenas
GUANTANAMO
The Lazarus Rumba	191	(14)
Ernesto Mestre
LIFE, EXILE, AND DEATH
The Prophet	205	(4)
Luis Aguilar Leon
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?	209	(16)
Achy Obejas
Contributors	225