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The veins of the ocean
\"Reina Castillo is [an] alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community: throwing a baby off a bridge--a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena, a recently exiled Cuban awaiting with hope the arrival of the children he left behind in Havana\"--Amazon.com.
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Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons
Persephone Braham shows how the Cuban novela negra examines the Revolution through a chronicle of life under a decaying regime, and how the Mexican neopoliciaco reveals the oppressive politics of modernization in Latin America. Considering the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes as well as G. K. Chesterton, Braham addresses Marxist critiques of the culture industry and Latin American postmodernity._x000B_
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The mortifications : a novel
\"In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnaciâon--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation. But years later, just as the Encarnaciâons settle into their new ways of life, Cuba calls them back. Uxbal is alive, and waiting.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel
Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel documents a body of emergent US Cuban literature published in Spanish and English beyond the scope and historicity of exile. Focusing on the work of Roberto G. Fernández, Ana Menéndez, and Antonio Benítez Rojo, the book proposes that, rather than reinforce US Cuban exile ethnic identity developed between 1960 and the 1980s, or demonstrate a tendency toward cultural assimilation (\"Americanization\") over three generations of writers, the discussed historical novels incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography. Published before the recent apertura between the US and Cuban governments, these post-exile novels anticipate themes of displacement, migration, and social marginalization as common, rather than exceptional, features of modern (and historical) life, as well as such other current (and historical) topics as gender construction and performance, figurations of race, the commoditization of culture, and urban poverty. The post-exile historical novel points to a future for US Cuban narrative and historiography, in part by investigating and featuring dissonances hidden or unacknowledged in previous Cuban exile historical fiction. The literature studied in this book further reinforces a view of two-way migration between Cuba and the United States as a normal phenomenon predating 1959, and, at the same time, as a likely shape of things to come.
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Heat
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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The Cyborg Caribbean
Finalist for the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, the book traces four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality, and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress.
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New shoes for Leo
Every year William's family sends a package of food, clothing, and medicine to their family in Cuba, but this year they realize they have forgotten to include new shoes for Leo.
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Les masques du Noir
La critique littéraire ne s’est que très rarement penchée sur la représentation du Noir dans la prose cubaine. Jusque dans les années 1980, la réalité sociale pouvait sans doute justifier une telle omission : la révolution instaurée en 1959 avait favorisé la cohabitation raciale dans l’île en adoptant une série de mesures qui allaient de l’alphabétisation à la nationalisation des lieux de loisirs et de culture. La crise économique, politique et sociale surgie à la fin des années 1980 a freiné ce processus. Les problèmes économiques ont creusé les inégalités sociales et raciales. La question raciale revient donc sous les feux de l’actualité. Dans ce contexte, un regard sur les représentations du Noir dans l’imaginaire cubain semble totalement pertinent. Nous proposons ici de chercher ces représentations au sein de la littérature, où la condition noire a été traditionnellement subordonnée à l’intégration nationale.
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