Oval Portrait
Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists
Published on 1. April 2018
218 pages
978-1-60940-564-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado (Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." The result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was "a perfect vehicle for introspection." As Ríos herself puts it: "The game requires us to go deep.... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait, construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the question: Which are your favorite lies?"
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Margaret Randall - Translator's note
- Soleida Ríos - To be read in solitude: An introductory note
- Jamila Medina Ríos - Beehive in a Dress of Little Ovals.
- Azucena Isabel Plasencia - Sara
- Caridad Atencio - Clouds Within / Clouds Out There
- Laura Ruiz Montes - Half an Hour on the Summit
- Nara Mansur - I Am Not Sleeping Beauty
- Teresita Burgos - Perennial Leaves
- Damaris Calderón - In the Land of In Between, Beaten by the Waters
- Amalia Iduate - The Cat
- Legna Rodríguez Iglesias - I'm Easy and I'm Drunk
- Dazra Novak - The Stalker
- Cirenaica Moreira - The Power of Universal Attraction and French Fries
- Margarita Mateo Palmer - Ínclita de Mamporro Speaks
- Irela Casañas - Descent
- Charo Guerra - Other Memories of J.B.
- Georgina Herrera - Absolved, Madam Mariana
- Adelaida de Juan - The Painting
- Soleida Ríos - The Sentence / Ayón Catalog
- Adriana Normand - Arts Theater
- Gina Picart - From Another Skin
- Lourdes González - The Voices of Alma Rubens
- Manelic R. Ferret - File
- Yannis Lobaina - Juana of León, That's Me
- Ruth Behar - Eternity
- Gertrudis Ortiz - Me, That One, Myself
- Marcela López Gravina - I Have Lied, Given Birth, and Loved
- Lizabel Mónica - Exercising the Productive Einbildungskraft.
- Basilia Paspatamatíu - Bad Memory
- Reina María Rodríguez - Aurora Borealis
- Soleida Ríos and Jamila M. Ríos - Focus on a Point in the Back and Speak
- Lía Villares - Hunger for Clarity
- Zurelys López Amaya - Anna's Secret
- Olga Marta Pérez - I Am the One with the Ribbons
- Mylene Fernández Pintado - Sprüngli
- Rocío Santillana - Havana Glub
- Darsi Fernández Maceira - Postscript
- Sandra Ramy - My Work is you
- About the Authors
- About the Editor
- About the Translator
- Back Cover
