Cubana
Subtitle: contemporary fiction by Cuban women
By: [edited by Mirta Yáñez ; foreword by Ruth Behar ; translated by Dick Cluster and Cindy Schuster].
Contributors: Yáñez, Mirta, 1947-; Cluster, Dick, 1947-; Schuster, Cindy.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Short stories, Cuban.; Cuban fiction -- Women authors.; Cuban fiction -- 20th century.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Women's voices from the Great Blue River / Mirta Yáñez; title: Somebody has to cry / Marilyn Bobes; title: Japanese daisies / María Elena Llana; title: Internal monologue on a corner in Havana / Josefina de Diego; title: A tooth for a tooth / Nancy Alonso; title: Anhedonia : a story for two women / Mylene Fernández Pintado; title: The scent of limes / Aida Bahr; title: My aunt / Esther Díaz Llanillo; title: Disremembering a smell / Ana Luz García Calzada; title: Catalina in the afternoons / Magaly Sánchez; title: Potosí II : address unknown / Rosa Ileana Boudet; title: A whiff of wild desire / Sonia Rivera-Valdés; title: Dust to dust / Mirta Yáñez; title: I just can't take it / Uva de Aragón; title: The Egyptians / Adelaida Fernández de Juan; title: We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Obejas; title: The urn and the name (a lighthearted tale) / Ena Lucía Portela.