A conversation between literary critic Isabel Álvarez-Borland and writer and journalist Anjanette Delgado on the literature of uprootedness, as reflected in Delgado’s newly published and highly acclaimed anthology Home In Florida, a collection showcasing some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.
Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the
United States.
Editor Anjanette Delgado characterizes the work in this collection as literatura del desarraigo, a Spanish literary tradition and a term used by Reinaldo Arenas. With the heart-changing, here-and-there perspective of attempting life in environments not their own, these writers portray many different responses to displacement, each occupying their own unique place on what Delgado calls a spectrum of belonging.
TO ATTEND, CLICK HERE ON THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME:
https://youtu.be/uOPdgU5Ka8g
To participate in the Q&A via Zoom, click here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89526024766
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist,
as well as an Emmy Award-winning producer. She is the author
of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle
Ocho. She has written for the New York Times “Modern Love”
column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the
Hong Kong Review, and others. Home in Florida won Silver Medal
at this year’s Independent Book Publishing Awards.
She resides in Miami.
Isabel Alvarez Borland is Distinguished Professor Emerita of
Arts and Humanities in the Department of Spanish at the College
of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Her books include Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona (1999) and Discontinuidad y ruptura en Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1982).
She is also co-editor of Negotiating Identities in Cuban American Art and Literature (2009) and Identity, Memory, and Diaspora (2008). She has published widely in scholarly journals such as Hispanic Review, MLN, and Revista Iberoamericana.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
With the promotional collaboration of
and
