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Home in Florida : Latinx writers and the literature of uprootedness /

This collection presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Delgado, Anjanette (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English text, partially translated from the Spanish.
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021].
Subjects:
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
Hispanic American literature (Spanish) > Florida > Translations into English.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
American literature > Florida.
Florida > Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Anjanette Delgado
  • La ciudad mágica / Patricia Engel
  • Notes on my present : a contrapuntal ; My macho takes care of me good ; Buen esqueleto / Natalie Scenters-Zapico
  • I write to Mami about Florida / Nilsa Ada Rivera
  • The cruel country (excerpt 68) ; El olvido / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • Rite of passage / Vera ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • The glass tower / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Dolores M. Koch
  • Soy de allá, pero vivo aquí / Isvett Verde
  • A matter of time / José Ignacio Valenzuela ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • The halfway house (an excerpt) / Guillermo Rosales ; translated by Anna Kushner
  • When I was a little Cuban boy ; Translation for Mamá ; Silent family clips / Richard Blanco
  • Hialeah, Isla Mía / Liz Balmaseda
  • From Las Colinas to Carol City and back : variations on a theme of acculturation / Yaddyra Peralta
  • Ziploc / Daniel Reschigna ; translated by Martina Lentino
  • Analfabeta ; Wet foot, dry foot, 2002 ; Topography / Caridad Moro-Gronlier
  • I came to Miami because I was told this was where my son lived / Legna Rodríguez Iglesias ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • They built a Margaritaville on Hollywood Beach which was once my favorite place in the world and now I can't go back because it's unrecognizable so fuck Jimmy Buffett / Ariel Francisco
  • Feliz año nuevo, Connor / Jennine Capó Crucet
  • The Miami underground and Nico / Michael García-Juelle
  • The many deaths of Fidel / Achy Obejas
  • Floridaness / Dainerys Machado Vento
  • The apartment / Ana Menéndez
  • Those days I spent with Mar / Pedro Median León ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • 38 hours / Javier Lentino ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • Other / Carlos Harrison
  • Star power / Alex Segura
  • Monster story / Jaquira Díaz
  • The ugly dyckling / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
  • Why I called this a translation ; Ofrenda ; How to name a city / Mia Leonin
  • Miami is Cuban / Raú Dopico ; translated by Andreína Fernández
  • Piercing my daughter's ears in Alabama / Chantel Acevedo
  • Consuelo's garden / Aracelis González Asendorf
  • Last man on an island / Carlos Pintado
  • A whole new world / Amina Lolita Gautier.