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The Devil's Agent
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Cuban Zarzuela
On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new genre of music theater that over the next fifteen years transformed popular entertainment on the island. Cu...
Detained and Deported
An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported to the rough border town of Nogales, Sonora, with nothing but the clothes on her back. Her two-year-old daughter and fifteen-year-old son, both American citizens, were taken by the state of Arizona and consigned to foster care. Their mother’s only offense: living undocumented in the United States. Immigrants like Elena, who’ve lived in the United S...
Miami Connections: Happily Ever After. Part Two
Following their spectacular vow renewal ceremony, Kristie and Enrique are living a life of married bliss. They feel like they’re living in a fantasy in the tropical city of Miami with their four beautiful children, and their love for each other becomes even stronger and more powerful than ever before. Their life together is full to the brim with joyful family time, philanthropic projects, lavish parties, romantic date nights, and, of course, lots and lots of passion! While José adjusts to a life away from crime, he finds himself suffering from bouts of paranoia that leave him with very real feelings that there is still a threat out there. He’s so grateful for the opportunities he has be...
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them. What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving farther away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. ...
Heat Treating 2011
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EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES
Colección de ensayos críticos de obras literarias norteamericanas firmadas por escritores exiliados y emigrantes, o por sus descendientes, ya nacidos en EE.UU., de origen cubano, mexicano, puertorriqueño, dominicano, asiático, afrocaribeño y europeo. Las obras literarias que se analizan fueron publicadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, si bien se han incluido otras anteriores por ser antecedentes de esta literatura de diversas diásporas. The volume is a collection of critical essays on North American literary works produced by immigrant and exiled writers or American-born descendants of Cuban. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Asian, European, and Afro-Caribbean origin. These literary works were published after the Second World War even though some earlier works have been included as antecedents of these literatures of diasporas. They create an amalgam of what being an American means in contemporary society.
Miami Connections: Happily Ever After. Part One
Kristie and Enrique are happier than ever and are very excited about what the future holds. After welcoming their new baby into the world, they have so much fun planning their vow renewal ceremony and enjoying family life to the max. Finally, everything is peaceful and calm between Enrique and his father, José, after years of torment and tragedy. Follow their journey as José Cruz leaves the cartel world behind him and rebuilds his life, his relationship with his son, and his family. Honesty is always the best policy, and José and Enrique’s relationship is a testament to this theory; however, can it really be that simple? Readers discretion is advised. This book contains strong language,...
