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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction in Two Voices
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En La Maleta: With a Suitcase in Our Hands
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Idas: After Everyone Has Left
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Regresos: When We Return
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About this book
Reviews
"The Portable Island explores the sensibilities of exile with grace to spare, giving voice to the ambivalence with which all of us -whether exiled or not - yearn for what we've lost. The island evoked here is a place both real and mythical: as much a paradise as a hell, as much a point of origin as a destination. Beyond that, these essays and poems also bear eloquent witness to the utter failure of Cuba's so-called Revolution, which wantonly expels whomever it can't devour." - Carlos Eire, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana
"Ruth Behar and Lucia Suarez serve up a sumptuous feast of love for a lost island. The Portable Island demonstrates the indelible impact Cuba has had not just upon its children but on all who come to know it." - Alfredo Estrada, author of Havana: Autobiography of a City
"Ruth Behar and Lucía M. Suárez, in gathering these inspiring, tenacious meditations on the circuitousness of exile, show that the terms 'home' and 'diaspora' are now synonymous. They also prove that Cuba is not only an island. It has become a metaphor for universalism!" - Ilan Stavans, author of The Hispanic Condition and Spanglish
About the authors
LUC?A M. SUÁREZ is Associate Professor of Spanish at Amherst College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Portable Island
Book Subtitle: Cubans at Home in the World
Editors: Ruth Behar, Lucía M. Suárez
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616158
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ruth Behar and Lucía M. Suárez 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60076-8Published: 20 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60477-3Published: 14 October 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61615-8Published: 27 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, general, Latin American Culture