Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women

by Mirta Yáñez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807083372
• ISBN13: 9780807083376
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"