Isabel Alvarez Borland is Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at State University of New York College at Geneseo and author of Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Together, they are the coeditors (with Jorge J. E. Gracia) of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press.

"Addressing multiple issues pertaining to Cubanness within US mainstream society, these essays offer a comprehensive survey of representative Cuban American authors, most of whom write in English, and artists." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIsabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. BoschPart One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the HyphenGustavo Pérez Firmat2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s PhotographsIsabel Alvarez Borland3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American FictionAdriana Méndez Rodenas4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban DiasporaIraida H. López5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major FictionsJorge Febles6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in CubaWilliam Luis7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It RightEliana RiveroPart Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual ArtsLynette M. F. Bosch9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist CriticismMark E. Denaci10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of ExileCarol Damian11. Cuban American Identity and ArtJorge J. E. Gracia12. Cuban Art in the DiasporaAndrea O’Reilly HerreraAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Isabel Alvarez Borland is Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at State University of New York College at Geneseo and author of Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Together, they are the coeditors (with Jorge J. E. Gracia) of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press.

"Addressing multiple issues pertaining to Cubanness within US mainstream society, these essays offer a comprehensive survey of representative Cuban American authors, most of whom write in English, and artists." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIsabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. BoschPart One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the HyphenGustavo Pérez Firmat2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s PhotographsIsabel Alvarez Borland3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American FictionAdriana Méndez Rodenas4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban DiasporaIraida H. López5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major FictionsJorge Febles6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in CubaWilliam Luis7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It RightEliana RiveroPart Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual ArtsLynette M. F. Bosch9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist CriticismMark E. Denaci10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of ExileCarol Damian11. Cuban American Identity and ArtJorge J. E. Gracia12. Cuban Art in the DiasporaAndrea O’Reilly HerreraAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Isabel Alvarez Borland is Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at State University of New York College at Geneseo and author of Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Together, they are the coeditors (with Jorge J. E. Gracia) of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press.

"Addressing multiple issues pertaining to Cubanness within US mainstream society, these essays offer a comprehensive survey of representative Cuban American authors, most of whom write in English, and artists." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIsabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. BoschPart One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the HyphenGustavo Pérez Firmat2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s PhotographsIsabel Alvarez Borland3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American FictionAdriana Méndez Rodenas4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban DiasporaIraida H. López5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major FictionsJorge Febles6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in CubaWilliam Luis7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It RightEliana RiveroPart Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual ArtsLynette M. F. Bosch9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist CriticismMark E. Denaci10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of ExileCarol Damian11. Cuban American Identity and ArtJorge J. E. Gracia12. Cuban Art in the DiasporaAndrea O’Reilly HerreraAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex