Contents
Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition - Ruth Behar
Introduction to the Original Edition - Ruth Behar
Part 1: Reconciliation/Reconciliación
For Ana Veldford (poetry) - Lourdes Casal
Prayer to Lourdes (poetry) - Ruth Behar
Beyond the Rupture: Reconciling with Our Enemies, Reconciling with Ourselves (essay) - Maria de los Angeles Torres
Miembros Fantasmas/Ghost Limbs (fiction) - Teresa Marrero
Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity (essay) - Flavio Risech
Silhouette (essay) - Raquel (Kaki) Mendieta Costa
A House on Shifting Sands (essay) - Flora González Mandri
From El Libro Regalado (poetry) - Emilio Bejel
Finding What Had Been Lost in Plain View (essay) - Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok
Nothing Lost Will Come Back with the Rain (poetry) - Victor Fowler Calzada
Repairing Things (essay) - Rosa Lowinger
"...And There Is Only My Imagination Where Our History Should Be": An Interview with Cristina Garcia - Iraida H. López
Bridges of the Heart (essay) - Pablo Armando Fernández
Ana Mendieta; Before a Mirror; A Chronicle That Swoons before the Immigrant Tree (poetry) - Nancy Morejón
Two Conversations with Nancy Morejón - Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (poetry) - Jesús J. Barquet
Fragments from Cuban Narratives (portfolio) - Eduardo Aparicio
Part 2: Rupture/ Ruptura
The Circle of Connections: One Hundred Years of Cuba-U.S. Relations (essay) - Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Epistle to Jose Luis Ferrer (From Havana to Miami) (poetry) - Jorge Luis Arcos
From My Name (A Family Anti-Elegy) (poetry) - Excilia Saldaña
Cubans Inside and Outside: Dialogue among the Deaf (essay) - Patricia Boero
Dangers of Speaking and Staying Quiet. Language of Silence (poetry) - Marilyn Bobes
El Diario de Miranda/ Miranda's Diary (essay) - Coco Fusco
Third Option: Beyond the Border (essay) - Madeline Cámara
My Key (poetry) - Yanai Manzor
Grandmother's Night (essay) - Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Soil; After Papa... (poetry) - Carilda Oliver Labra
Contradictions, Pluralism, and Dialogue: An Interview with René Vásquez Díaz - Elena M. Martínez
God Doesn't Help Us (fiction) - Senel Paz
Strange Planet (fiction) - Elías Miguel Muñoz
As If in a Game (poetry) - Roberto Valero
Performative Identities: Scenes between Two Cubas (essay) - Lillian Manzor-Coats
Radishes (fiction) - Roberto G. Fernández
A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami: Reflections on the Meaning of Underdevelopment and Cultural Change (essay) - Juan Leon
Landscapes of the Mind (poetry) - Carlota Caulfield
Sunday (poetry) - Achy Obejas
Elisa, or The Price of Dreams (fiction) - Rita Martín
Poem for the Woman Who Talks to Herself in the Park (poetry) - Lina de Feria
The Wall (poetry) - María Elena Cruz Varela
Part 3: Remembering/ Recuerdos
Between Nightfall and Vengeance: Remembering Reinaldo Arenas (essay) - Abilio Estévez
Lunch (poetry) - José Kozer
Vigía: The Endless Publications of Matanzas (conversation) - María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estévez, and Alfredo Zaldívar
Three Mambos and a Son Montuno (essay) - Gustavo Pérez Firmat
From Going Under: A Cuban-American Fable (fiction) - Virgil Suarez
"Fronterisleña," Border Islander (essay) - Eliana S. Rivero
Cubans and Airports (essay) - Teofilo F. Ruiz
Knots in the Handkerchief (poetry) - Ernesto Santana
In the Way of Fortune (poetry) - Georgina Herrera
Sea's Path (poetry) - Minerva Salado
Pilgrims of the Dawn (poetry) - Miguel Barnet
Carnaval (drama) - Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes
Pilgrimage to France: The Cuban Painters (essay) - Lourdes Gil
Moving (poetry) - Mirtha N. Quintanales
My Life with Fidel Castro: A Soap Opera without Transmitter (essay) - Alan West
The Islands; Letter to a Woman Friend (poetry) - Reina María Rodríguez
El Fuego (poetry) - Amando Fernández
Queer Times in Cuba (essay) - Ruth Behar
Two Figures on a Bridge (poetry) - Zaida del Río
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