Cubana – hinnat ja saatavuus

Until recently, the combination of a Cuban old boys' network and an ideological emphasis on tough writing kept fiction by Cuban women largely unknown and unread. Cubana, the U. S. version of a groundbreaking anthology of women's fiction published in Cuba in 1996, introduces these once-ignored writers to a new audience. Havana editor and author Mirta Y ez has assembled an impressive group of sixteen stories that reveals the strength and variety of contemporary writing by Cuban women-and offers a glimpse inside Cuba during a time of both extreme economic difficulty and artistic renaissance. Many of these stories focus pointedly on economic and social conditions. Josefina de Diego's Internal Monologue on a Corner in Havana shows us the current crisis through the eyes and voice of a witty economist-turned-vendor who must sell her extra cigarettes. Others-Magaly S nchez's erotic fantasy Catalina in the Afternoons and Mylene Fern ndez Pintado's psychologically deft Anhedonia (A Story in Two Women)-reveal a nascent Cuban feminism. The twelve-year-old narrator of Aida Bahr's The Scent of Limes tries to make sense of her grandparents' conservative values, her stepfather's disappearance, and her mother's fierce independence. The Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas recreates the strange dual identity of the immigrant, while avant-garde stories like the playful and savvy The Urn and the Name (A Merry Tale), written by Ena Luc a Portela, reveal the vitality of the experimental tradition in Cuba. And Rosa Ileana Boudet's Potos 11: Address Unknown is both a romantic paean to a time of youth, passion, and revolution, and an attempt to reconcile that past with a diminished present.