The oval portrait : contemporary Cuban women writers and artists : originally published as El retrato ovalado / edited by Soleida Rios ; translated by Margaret Randall.
My work is you / Sandra Ramy. Beehive in a dress of little ovals / Jamila Medina Ríos -- Sara / Azucena Isabel Plasencia -- Clouds within / clouds out there / Caridad Atencio -- Half an hour on the summit / Laura Ruiz Montes -- I am not sleeping beauty / Nara Mansur -- Perennial leaves / Teresita Burgos -- In the land of In between, beaten by the waters / Damaris Calderón -- The cat / Amalia Iduate -- I'm easy and I'm drunk / Legna Rodríguez Iglesias -- The stalker / Dazra Novak -- The power of universal attraction and french fries / Cirenaica Moreira -- Ínclita de Mamporro speaks / Margarita Mateo Palmer -- Descent / Irela Casañas -- Other memories of J.B. / Charo Guerra -- Absolved, madam Mariana / Georgian Herrera -- The painting / Adelaida de Juan -- The sentence / Anyón catalog / Soleida Rios -- Arts theater / Adriana Normand -- From another skin / Gina Picart -- The voices of Alma Rubens / Lourdes González -- File / Manelic R. Ferret -- Juana of León, that's me / Yannis Lobaina -- Eternity / Ruth Behar -- Me, that one, myself / Gertrudis Ortiz -- I have lied, given birth, and loved / Marcela López Gravina -- Exercising the productive einbildungskraft / Lizabel Mónica -- Bad memory / Basilia Paspatamatíu -- Aurora Borealis / Reina María Rodriguez -- Focus on a point in the back and speak / Soleida Ríos and Jamila M. Ríos -- Hunger for clarity / Lía Villares -- Anna's secret / Zurelys López Amaya -- I am the one with the ribbons / Olga Marta Pérez -- Sprüngli / Mylene Fernández Pintado -- Havana glub / Rocío Santillana -- Postscript / Darsi Fernández Maceira -- My work is you / Sandra Ramy.
Summary:
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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