Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women
Ruth Behar
(Author)
Mirta Yanez
(Editor)
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.
Product Details
Price
$24.00
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publish Date
May 01, 1998
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.53 X 8.45 X 0.68 inches | 0.66 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807083376
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About the Author
Cindy Schuster is a poet and translator. She teaches at Tufts University and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Reviews
Beginning with her Estatuas de sal (edited with Marilyn Bobes), Mirta Yáñez has made us (some of us willingly, others not) realize the quantity and quality of Cuban women's writings. Cubana is a welcomed addition to the still slim shelves of Caribbean women's writings in translation.--Daisy Cocco De Filippis, editor of Dominicanas and Friends Mirta Yáñez was formerly associate professor of Latin American literature at the University of Havana. She is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Ruth Behar's most recent book is The Vulnerable Observer. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dick Cluster is a novelist and translator, most recently, of Alejandro Hernández Díaz's The Cuban Mile.
