The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World (New Directions in Latino American Culture)

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
After the Bridges....Pages 3-8
Our Memories, Ourselves....Pages 9-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-18
Wherever That May Be....Pages 19-24
I Will Die in Paris in the Sudden Rain....Pages 25-36
Exile and Bougainvillea....Pages 37-41
The Land Is in Me....Pages 43-45
Notes on the Movement of Trains in Germany....Pages 47-53
Easter Sunday and Lake Waban: Two Poems....Pages 55-58
Avon Calling....Pages 59-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-66
They Took Me to the Movies While My Mother Packed Her Bag and Other Poems....Pages 67-78
Other Roads to Santiago and Other Poems....Pages 79-84
“That’s My Theme: The Human Adventure.” An Interview with Ena Lucía Portela....Pages 85-91
From Havana to Mexico City: Generation, Diaspora, and Borderland....Pages 93-104
Josefina the Traveler: Ceremony for a Desperate Actress (Monologue)....Pages 105-110
Letter to Enrique Saínz, or, On Imaginary Conversions....Pages 111-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-120
In the Middle of Nowhere....Pages 121-128
The Woman Who Wanted Bridges....Pages 129-138
Piedra Jaimanitas....Pages 139-143
Going Home Via Africa and Cayo Hueso....Pages 145-152
Writing from Babylon....Pages 153-160
Front Matter....Pages 119-120
The Convergence of Time: Being Cuban in the Present Tense....Pages 161-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-170
Citizen of a Certain World....Pages 171-175
My Repeating Island....Pages 177-182
A Cuban Dorothy....Pages 183-196
Becoming Cuba-Rican....Pages 197-208
Crossing Borders: Notes on Forgetting....Pages 209-214
Cuba in my Heart: A Geo-Emotional Condition....Pages 215-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Waiting....Pages 233-234
Gerundios para la Espera (Verbs for Waiting): A Visual Coda....Pages 235-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-258