Marielitos, balseros and other exiles
By: Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés.
Publisher: Ig Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780981504025
Subjects: Immigrants -- Florida -- Fiction; Exiles -- Florida -- Fiction; Cubans -- Florida -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A panoramic portrait of the Cuban American community, Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles shares the joys, tragedies, and amazing resiliency of the Cuban immigrants who arrived in this country via the Mariel boat lift of 1980 (marielitos) and the "rafters" (balseros) who came in the years afterward. The stories in this debut collection reveal the full social, economic and emotional scope of the immigrant experience, from the repression that many of the "boat people" experienced in Castro's Cuba, the discrimination they encounter upon their arrival in America, and their struggles to build a new life in the United States. Written in an arresting style that marries English with the native Spanish of the characters, Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles is an important achievement by a new voice in Latino Literature.
Table of contents: title: A matter of opinion; title: La buena vida; title: La pareja; title: Abuela marielita; title: A fraction of always; title: The fresh boys; title: El loco; title: Muchacha (after Jamaica); title: Failed secrets; title: Puyas; title: Two friends and the santera; title: My dead; title: Beast of burden; title: Forged lives.