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The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the "second generation"-writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural United States. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama, and provides an overview of Cuban American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors-including President Obama's Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco-the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality.
"The selections chosen are excellent across the board. Collectively, they give a sense of the directions in which second-generation Cuban American writing is moving, as well as of its abiding concern with the country of origin of the first generation. The writing is impressive, strong, and compelling." — Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Acknowledgments
Preface
Iraida H. López and Eliana S. Rivero
Introduction: Looking Back While Forging Ahead
Iraida H. López
Richard Blanco
Mail for Mama
La Bella Dama of Little Havana
Cooking with Mama in Maine
5:00 AM in Cuba
Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar
Listening to Mermaids
Ana Menéndez
The Death of Lenin Garcia
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Cienfuegos, Pearl of the South
Adrian Castro
Some Guayaberas Spell Nostalgia
Bilingual Bicultural by USA
Cuchillo de doble filo (I)
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping
Itutu Sankofa 2003
Prayer for Naming Ceremony
Father Above, Mother Below, the Hanging Tree
Robert Arellano
Merienda en merica
Chantel Acevedo
The Child Hero’s Lament
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Bird in the Hand
Notes on Returning to San Francisco Twenty-Five Years Later
Vanessa Garcia
This Is Not a Neon Sign
Derek Palacio
Home to Our Blood
Gabriela Garcia
Other Leticia
Contributors
Works Cited