Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
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  • 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.