Introduction to the 20th anniversary edition / Ruth Behar
Introduction to the original edition / Ruth Behar
part 1. Reconciliation = Reconciliación. For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal
Prayer to Lourdes / Ruth Behar
Beyond the rupture : reconciling with our enemies, reconciling with ourselves / Maria de los Angeles Torres
Miembros fantasmas = ghost limbs / Teresa Marrero
Political and cultural cross-dressing : negotiating a second generation Cuban-American identity / Flavio Risech
Silhouette / Raquel (Kaki) Mendieta Costa
A house on shifting sands / Flora González Mandri
From El libro regalado / Emilio Bejel
Finding what had been lost in plain view / Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok
Nothing lost will come back with the rain / Victor Fowler Calzada
Repairing things / 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 / Pablo Armando Fernández
Ana Mendieta; Before a mirror; A chronicle that swoons before the immigrant tree / Nancy Morejón
Two conversations with Nancy Morejón / Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez
Verrazano-Narrows bridge / Jesús J. Barquet
Fragments from Cuban narartives / Eduardo Aparicio
part. 2. Rupture = Ruptura. The circle of connections : one hundred years of Cuba-U.S. relations / Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Epistle to Jose Luis Ferrer (from Havana to Miami) / Jorge Luis Arcos
From my name (a family anti-elegy) / Excilia Saldaña
Cubans inside and outside : dialogue among the deaf / Patricia Boero
Dangers of speaking and staying quiet ; Language of silence / Marilyn Bobes
El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco
Third options : beyond the border / Madeline Cámara
My key / Yanai Manzor
Grandmother's night / Sonia Rivera-Valdes
Soil; After papa ... / Carilda Oliver Labra
Contradictions, pluralism, and dialogue : an interview with Rene Vásquez Díaz / Elena M. Martínez
God doesn't help us / Senel Paz
Strange planet / Elías Miguel Muñoz
As if in a game / Roberto Valero
Performative identities : scenes between two Cubas / Lillian Manzor-Coats
Radishes / Roberto G. Fernández
A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami : reflections on the meaning of underdevelopment and cultural change / Juan Leon
Landscapes of the mind / Carlota Caulfield
Sunday / Achy Obejas
Elisa, or The price of dreams / Rita Martín
Poem for the woman who talks to herself in the park / Lina de Feria
The wall / María Elena Cruz Varela
Recent Cuban art : a portfolio
part 3. Remembering = Recuerdos. Between nightfall and vengeance : remembering Reinaldo Arenas / Abilio Estevez
Lunch / Jose Kozer
Vigía : the endless publications of Matanzas / María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estevez, and Alfredo Zaldívar
Three mambos and a son montuno / Gustavo Perez Firmat
From going under : a Cuban-American fable / Virgil Suarez
"Fronterisleña," border islander / Eliana S. Rivero
Cubans and airports / Teofilo F. Ruiz
Knots in the handkerchief / Ernesto Santana
In the way of fortune / Georgina Herrera
Sea's path / Minerva Salado
Pilgrims of the dawn / Miguel Barnet
Carnaval / Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes
Pilgrimage to France : the Cuban painters / Lourdes Gil
Moving / Mirtha N. Quintanales
My life with Fidel Castro : a soap opera without transmitter / Alan West
The islands : letter to a woman friend / Reina María Rodríguez
El fuego / Amando Fernández
Queer times in Cuba / Ruth Behar
Two figures on a bridge / Zaida del Río.
Introduction to the original edition / Ruth Behar
part 1. Reconciliation = Reconciliación. For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal
Prayer to Lourdes / Ruth Behar
Beyond the rupture : reconciling with our enemies, reconciling with ourselves / Maria de los Angeles Torres
Miembros fantasmas = ghost limbs / Teresa Marrero
Political and cultural cross-dressing : negotiating a second generation Cuban-American identity / Flavio Risech
Silhouette / Raquel (Kaki) Mendieta Costa
A house on shifting sands / Flora González Mandri
From El libro regalado / Emilio Bejel
Finding what had been lost in plain view / Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok
Nothing lost will come back with the rain / Victor Fowler Calzada
Repairing things / 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 / Pablo Armando Fernández
Ana Mendieta; Before a mirror; A chronicle that swoons before the immigrant tree / Nancy Morejón
Two conversations with Nancy Morejón / Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez
Verrazano-Narrows bridge / Jesús J. Barquet
Fragments from Cuban narartives / Eduardo Aparicio
part. 2. Rupture = Ruptura. The circle of connections : one hundred years of Cuba-U.S. relations / Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Epistle to Jose Luis Ferrer (from Havana to Miami) / Jorge Luis Arcos
From my name (a family anti-elegy) / Excilia Saldaña
Cubans inside and outside : dialogue among the deaf / Patricia Boero
Dangers of speaking and staying quiet ; Language of silence / Marilyn Bobes
El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco
Third options : beyond the border / Madeline Cámara
My key / Yanai Manzor
Grandmother's night / Sonia Rivera-Valdes
Soil; After papa ... / Carilda Oliver Labra
Contradictions, pluralism, and dialogue : an interview with Rene Vásquez Díaz / Elena M. Martínez
God doesn't help us / Senel Paz
Strange planet / Elías Miguel Muñoz
As if in a game / Roberto Valero
Performative identities : scenes between two Cubas / Lillian Manzor-Coats
Radishes / Roberto G. Fernández
A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami : reflections on the meaning of underdevelopment and cultural change / Juan Leon
Landscapes of the mind / Carlota Caulfield
Sunday / Achy Obejas
Elisa, or The price of dreams / Rita Martín
Poem for the woman who talks to herself in the park / Lina de Feria
The wall / María Elena Cruz Varela
Recent Cuban art : a portfolio
part 3. Remembering = Recuerdos. Between nightfall and vengeance : remembering Reinaldo Arenas / Abilio Estevez
Lunch / Jose Kozer
Vigía : the endless publications of Matanzas / María Eugenia Alegría, Rolando Estevez, and Alfredo Zaldívar
Three mambos and a son montuno / Gustavo Perez Firmat
From going under : a Cuban-American fable / Virgil Suarez
"Fronterisleña," border islander / Eliana S. Rivero
Cubans and airports / Teofilo F. Ruiz
Knots in the handkerchief / Ernesto Santana
In the way of fortune / Georgina Herrera
Sea's path / Minerva Salado
Pilgrims of the dawn / Miguel Barnet
Carnaval / Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes
Pilgrimage to France : the Cuban painters / Lourdes Gil
Moving / Mirtha N. Quintanales
My life with Fidel Castro : a soap opera without transmitter / Alan West
The islands : letter to a woman friend / Reina María Rodríguez
El fuego / Amando Fernández
Queer times in Cuba / Ruth Behar
Two figures on a bridge / Zaida del Río.