The Portable Island
Subtitle: Cubans at Home in the World (New Directions in Latino American Culture)
Contributors: Ruth Behar (Editor); Lucia M. Suarez (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230604773
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & Latin American; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology
Description: Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.