Cubana

Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women

Mirta Yanez, Ruth Behar, Dick Cluster , Cindy Schuster

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English

Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Anthologies (non-poetry); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Until recently, the combination of a Cuban old boys' network and an ideological emphasis on ""tough"" writing kept fiction by Cuban women largely unknown and unread. Cubana, the U.S. version of a groundbreaking anthology of women's fiction published in Cuba in 1996, introduces these once-ignored writers to a new audience. Havana editor and author Mirta Yanez has assembled an impressive group of sixteen stories that reveals the strength and variety of contemporary writing by Cuban women-and offers a glimpse inside Cuba during a time of both extreme economic difficulty and artistic renaissance.

Many of these stories focus pointedly on economic and social conditions. Josefina de Diego's ""Internal Monologue on a Corner in Havana"" shows us the current crisis through the eyes and voice of a witty economist-turned-vendor who must sell her extra cigarettes. Others-Magaly Sanchez's erotic fantasy ""Catalina in the Afternoons"" and Mylene Fernandez Pintado's psychologically deft ""Anhedonia (A Story in Two Women)""-reveal a nascent Cuban feminism. The twelve-year-old narrator of Aida Bahr's ""The Scent of Limes"" tries to make sense of her grandparents' conservative values, her stepfather's disappearance, and her mother's fierce independence. The Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas recreates the strange dual identity of the immigrant, while avant-garde stories like the playful and savvy ""The Urn and the Name (A Merry Tale),"" written by Ena Lucia Portela, reveal the vitality of the experimental tradition in Cuba. And Rosa Ileana Boudet's ""Potosi 11- Address Unknown"" is both a romantic paean to a time of youth, passion, and revolution, and an attempt to reconcile that past with a diminished present.

By: Ruth Behar
Edited by: Mirta Yanez, Dick Cluster
Translated by: Dick Cluster, Cindy Schuster
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 298g
ISBN: 9780807083376
ISBN 10: 0807083372
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Women's voices from the Great Blue River / Mirta Y aanez -- Somebody has to cry / Marilyn Bobes -- Japanese daisies / Mar ia Elena Llana -- Internal monologue on a corner in Havana / Josefina de Diego -- A tooth for a tooth / Nancy Alonso -- Anhedonia : a story for two women / Mylene Fern andez Pintado -- The scent of limes / Aida Bahr -- My aunt / Esther D iaz Llanillo -- Disremembering a smell / Ana Luz Garc ia Calzada -- Catalina in the afternoons / Magaly S anchez -- Potos i II : address unknown / Rosa Ileana Boudet -- A whiff of wild desire / Sonia Rivera-Vald es -- Dust to dust / Mirta Y aanez -- I just can't take it / Uva de Arag on -- The Egyptians / Adelaida Fern andez de Juan -- We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / AchyObejas -- The urn and the name (a lighthearted tale) / Ena Luc ia Portela.

Cindy Schuster is a poet and translator. She teaches at Tufts University and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Reviews for Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women

Beginning with her Estatuas de sal (edited with Marilyn Bobes), Mirta Yanez has made us (some of us willingly, others not) realize the quantity and quality of Cuban women's writings. Cubana is a welcomed addition to the still slim shelves of Caribbean women's writings in translation.--Daisy Cocco De Filippis, editor of Dominicanas and Friends <br><br>Mirta Yanez was formerly associate professor of Latin American literature at the University of Havana. She is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Ruth Behar's most recent book is The Vulnerable Observer . She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. <br><br>Dick Cluster is a novelist and translator, most recently, of Alejandro Hernandez Diaz's The Cuban Mile .