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Cuba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Cuba

Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.

ReMembering Cuba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

ReMembering Cuba

One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photographs, and paintings to capture the strong emotions surrounding this ongoing ordeal. Simultaneous.

Motherhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Motherhood

In feminism, the institution of mothering/motherhood has been a highly contested area in how it relates to the oppression of women. As Adrienne Rich articulated in her classic 1976 book Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, although motherhood as an institution is a male-defined site of oppression, women's own experiences of mothering can nonetheless be a source of power. This volume examines four locations wherin motherhood is simultaneously experienced as a site of oppression and of power: emodiment, representation, practice, and separation. Motherhood: Power and Oppression includes psychological, historical, sociological, literary, and cultural approaches to inquiry and a wide range of disciplinary perspectives — qualitative, quantitative, corporeal, legal, religious, fictional, mythological, dramatic and action research. This rich collection not only covers a wide range of subject matter but also illustrates ways of doing feminist research and practice.

Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora

  • Categories: Art

As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and intellectuals. A major expression of this experience is the unconventional, multi-generational, itinerant, and ongoing art exhibit CAFÉ: The Journeys of Cuban Artists. In Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera focuses on the CAFÉ project to explore Cuba's long and turbulent history of movement and rupture from the perspective of its visual arts and to meditate upon the manner in w...

Mother Outlaws
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Mother Outlaws

Feminist scholars of motherhood distinguish between mothering and motherhood, and argue that the latter is a patriarchal institution that is oppressive to women. Few scholars, however, have considered how mothering, as a female defined and centred experience, may be a site of empowerment for women. This collection is the first to do so. Mother Outlaws examines how mothers imagine and implement theories and practices of mothering that are empowering to women. Central to this inquiry is the recognition that mothers and children benefit when the mother lives her life, and practices mothering, from a position of agency, authority, authenticity and autonomy.

Family Matters in the British and American Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Family Matters in the British and American Novel

Family Matters in the British and American Novel examines the literature that challenges and alters widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late-eighteenth century to the present day.

Having Our Way
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Having Our Way

The collection considers the work of ten women writers: Nella Larsen, Zelda Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Sylvia Plath, Hisaye Yamamoto, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Sandra Cisneros.

A Secret Weavers Anthology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

A Secret Weavers Anthology

This book not only celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Secret Weavers series, but also provides teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women's voices addressing a wide variety of topics. The book includes work from the earliest writers to those who have recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters.

The Pearl of the Antilles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

The Pearl of the Antilles

Margarita, an exile in the United States, is struggling to come to terms with her divided identity, a past she has suppressed, and her failure to share her heritage with her children.

Impossible Returns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Impossible Returns

In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience by means of fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. As two-way migration increases in the post-Cold War period, many of these narratives put to the test the boundaries of national identity. Through a critical reading of works by Cuban American artists and writers like María Brito, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Mendieta, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Ernes...