Life on the Hyphen : : The Cuban-American Way / / Gustavo Pérez Firmat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Pérez Firmat, Gustavo,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Introduction. The Desi Chain -- Chapter One. I Love Ricky -- Chapter Two. The Man Who Loved Lucy -- Chapter Three. A Brief History of Mambo Time -- Chapter Four. Salsa for All Seasons -- Chapter Five. Rum, Rump, and Rumba -- Chapter Six. No Man’s Language -- Chapter Seven. The Spell of the Hyphen -- Epilogue. My Repeating Island -- Notes -- Index -- Permissions Acknowledgments