By Heart/de Memori: Cuban Women's Journeys in and out of Exile

by Maria de los Angeles de Torres (Editor), Janet M. Alger

Overview

In this moving account of the Cuban revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres's words "This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community." These poets, artists, and scholars represent each post-revolution exile generation. Some left Cuba in the Pedro Pan airlift, some left afterward, some never left at all. Others-like the editor-left as children only to return and leave again, disillusioned with both the exile politics and with Castro's island. Together they testify to the powerful intersections of memory, politics, nation, and exile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592130108
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2003
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
1	Introduction	1
2	The Boat	15
3	Reflections	17
4	Donde los Fantasmas Bailan Guaguanco: Where Ghosts Dance el Guaguanco	23
5	Not the Golden Age	57
6	From This Side of the Fish Tank	75
7	Through Other Looking Glasses	85
8	La Salida: The Departure	103
9	The Recurring Dream	117
10	Only Fragments of Memory	133
11	Words Without Borders	151
12	Postwar Memories	169
	About the Contributors	191