CubaRican - del Río, Eduardo R
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CubaRican is a bilingual sequence of vignettes and poems based on the author's experiences growing up in Puerto Rico as a Cuban exile. Evoking childhood memories, the author explores the feelings of a boy developing an identity in a place that seems both familiar and alien. Throughout this loose chronology, parents, siblings, and childhood friends serve as symbols for the increasing sense of conflict the boy grapples with and struggles to identify. Describing both the Puerto Rican countryside and its urban grit, the maturing narrator eventually comes to grips with both sides of his Caribbean self.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
CubaRican is a bilingual sequence of vignettes and poems based on the author's experiences growing up in Puerto Rico as a Cuban exile. Evoking childhood memories, the author explores the feelings of a boy developing an identity in a place that seems both familiar and alien. Throughout this loose chronology, parents, siblings, and childhood friends serve as symbols for the increasing sense of conflict the boy grapples with and struggles to identify. Describing both the Puerto Rican countryside and its urban grit, the maturing narrator eventually comes to grips with both sides of his Caribbean self.
Autorenporträt
Eduardo R. del Río was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, and is an NEH Fellow. He is the editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino Literature and One Island Many Voices: Interviews with Cuban-American Writers from The University of Arizona Press. He has published numerous essays in peer-reviewed national and international journals. His most recent prose and poetry can be found in Voices de la Luna, The Journal of Caribbean Literature, and Label Me Latina/o. He is Emeritus Professor from The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley where he taught Latina/o and Mexican-American Literature for twenty-five years.