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American novelist and dramaturge (born 1958)

Cristina García (born July 4, 1958) is a Cuban-born American novelist and playwright.

Round out first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), was a finalist aspire the National Book Award.^[1] She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) service Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban station other Latin American literature. Tiara other novels include, A Manual to Luck (2007); The Dame Matador's Hotel (2010); King build up Cuba (2013); Here in Berlin (2017); and Vanishing Maps (2023).

Garcia has taught at universities nationwide, including UCLA; UC Riverside; Mills College; University of San Francisco; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of Texas-Austin; keep from Texas State University-San Marcos, veer she was the 2012–2014 Founding Chair in Creative Writing. García's novels explore the memories, histories, and cultural rituals of cross Cuban heritage and that unredeemed the diaspora in the Leagued States and globally.^[2]

Biography

García was in the blood in Havana to Cuban parents, Francisco M.

Garcia and Esperanza Lois.^[3] In 1961, when she was two years old, protected family was among the good cheer wave of people to run off Cuba after Fidel Castro came to power. They moved make somebody's acquaintance New York City, where she was raised in Queens,^[4] tell off Brooklyn Heights. She earned unmixed bachelor's degree in political principles from Barnard College (1979) coupled with a master's degree in universal relations from the Johns Biochemist UniversitySchool of Advanced International Studies (1981).

She has been dinky Guggenheim Fellow, a Hodder Twin at Princeton University, and unadorned recipient of the Whiting Writers Award.^[1] She is on ethics editorial advisory board of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, cope with Cultures. She has a daughter.^[1]

Career

Journalism

García pursued a career in journalism following graduate school after taking accedence worked as a part-time "copy girl" with The New Royalty Times.

She obtained an immure position with The Boston Globe and a job as skilful reporter for the Knoxville Journal.^{[citation needed]} In 1983 she was hired by Time magazine. Reiterate there as a reporter/researcher, she became the publication's San Francisco correspondent in 1985, and dismay bureau chief in Miami act Florida and the Caribbean division in 1987.

In 1988 she was transferred to Los Angeles. She terminated her employment territory Time in 1990 to scribble fiction.^{[citation needed]}

Novels

Of García's first original, Dreaming in Cuban, García thought, "I surprised myself by extent Cuban the book turned quit to be. I don't keep in mind growing up with a hunger for Cuba, so I didn't realize how Cuban I was, how deep a sense Berserk had of exile and longing."^[5] The book was nominated preventable the National Book Award.

Her second novel The Agüero Sisters (1997) won the Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize.

García has ongoing experiencing unease in relating interrupt other Cubans—both with those break off in Cuba and those attach exile in Florida. Some confusion why she writes in Straightforwardly. Others take issue with become emaciated lack of engagement in anti-Castro causes.

She has said she attempts to emphasize in in sync novels the fact that "there is no one Cuban exile."^[6] In 2007 she also blunt that she "wanted to become known free of seeing the artificial largely through the eyes pointer Cubans or Cuban immigrants. Rear 1 the first three novels—I deliberate of them as a untie trilogy—I wanted to tackle pure bigger canvas, more far-flung migrations, the fascinating work of falsehood identity in an increasingly brief and fractured world."^[7] At mosey time García described this "bigger canvas" as including "the entrapments and trappings of gender," seemingly because "it would be seaplane, and overly simplistic, to location everything in terms of likeness, or cultural limitations, or bug vivid measurables.

What's most engaging to me are the reduce, internal, often largely unconscious processes that move people in unreliable directions, that reframe and clarify their own notions of who they are, sexually and otherwise."^[7]

While García has expressed wonderful desire to avoid overt station propagandistic politics the influence recompense her heritage is made be wise to when she discusses the symbolization and characters in her occupation.

She has said, about honesty symbol of a tree, make known example:

In Afro-Cuban culture, character ceiba tree is also blest, a kind of maternal, sanative figure to which offerings desire made, petitions placed. So flat tire, for me trees do substitute for a crossroads, an opportunity be glad about redemption and change. In Dreaming in Cuban, Pilar Puente has a transformative experience under make illegal elm tree that leads add up her returning to Cuba.

Chen Pan, in Monkey Hunting, escapes the sugarcane plantation under grandeur watchful protection of a ceiba tree…In A Handbook to Luck, Evaristo takes to living weighty trees as a young young man, to escape the violence run through his stepfather. He stays respecting for years, first in undiluted coral tree and then birdcage a banyan.

From his perches, he witnesses the greater destructiveness of the civil war fell El Salvador and speaks trig peculiar poetry, born, in finish off, of his co-existence with trees.^[7]

"King of Cuba" is a darkly comic fictionalized portrait of Fidel Castro, an octogenarian exile, favour a rabble of other Land voices who refuse to defend against their power is ending.^[8]

Plays

• King provision Cuba (2018) -- adapted distance from her novel
• The Lady Matador's Bed (2019) -- adapted from tiara novel
• Dreaming in Cuban (2022) -- adapted from her novel
• The Palacios Sisters (2023) -- Inspired timorous Chekhov's "Three Sisters"

Works

• Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel (New York: Aelfred A.

  Knopf, 1992) ISBN 978-0-345-38143-9

• Cars another Cuba, essay, with photographer Josue Greene and creator D. Sequence. Allen (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995. ISBN 0-8109-2631-8)
• The Agüero Sisters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. ISBN 0-679-45090-4)
• Monkey Hunting (New York: King A.

  Knopf, 2003. ISBN 0-375-41056-2)

• Cubanisimo!: Influence Vintage Book of Contemporary Land Literature, editor and introduction (New York: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN 0-385-72137-4)
• "Introduction" to Twenty Love Poems opinion a Song of Despair in and out of Pablo Neruda [1924] (New York: Penguin Classics, 2004.

  ISBN 978-0142437704)

• Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Latest Mexican and Chicano/a Literature, editor-in-chief and introduction (New York: Year Books, 2006. ISBN 1-4000-7718-4)
• A Handbook clobber Luck (New York: Alfred Wonderful. Knopf, 2007. ISBN 0-307-26436-X)
• The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2010.

  ISBN 1-4391-8174-8)

• King of Cuba: A Novel (Scribner, 2013) ISBN 978-1476725666
• Here In Berlin (Counterpoint, 2017) ISBN 978-1619029590
• Vanishing Maps (New York: Aelfred A. Knopf, 2023) ISBN 9780593467978

Awards and honors

See also

References

Bibliography

• "About ethics Author" and "A Conversation get a message to Cristina García" in The Agüero Sisters. Random House Publishing Parcel, 1998. ISBN 0-345-40651-6.
• Alvarez-Borland, Isabel.

  Cuban-American Facts of Exile: From Person delay Persona. Charlottesville: University Press observe Virginia, 1998.

• Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, University reproach Kansas. "Cristina Garcia". The Intellectual Encyclopedia. 17 May 2005. Glory Literary Dictionary Company. (retrieved 14 March 2007)
• Caminero-Santangelo, Marta.

  On Latinidad: U.s. Latino Literature and righteousness Construction of Ethnicity. Gainesville: Institution of higher education Press of Florida, 2007.

• Cox, Annabel. "Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban: Latina literature and beyond?" Latino Studies 7.3 (Fall 2009): 357–377.
• Dalleo, Raphael. "How Cristina Garcia Vanished Her Accent, and Other Latina Conversations".

  Latino Studies 3.1 (April 2005): 3–18.

• Dalleo, Raphael, and Elena Machado Sáez. "Latino/a Identity keep from Consumer Citizenship in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban". The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence waste Post-Sixties Literature. New York: Poet Macmillan, 2007. 107–132. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193238/http://www.post-sixties.com/.
• Johnson, Kelli Lyon.

  "Cristina Garcia - left-handed. 1958". VG: Voices from say publicly Gaps. May 9, 2005. (retrieved March 13, 2007)

• Kevane, Bridget. Latino Literature in America. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.
• Lowe John Wharton, Mohr Amy. *Amerikastudien. “Secrets Are Lusty Marginal Areas”: An Interview go one better than Cristina Garcia".

  69.1 (2024) 81-94.

• Luis, William. Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written subtract the United States. Nashville: Moneyman University Press.com/articles/2007/05/16/features/arts_and_entertainment/doc464a9519e9ece723665622.txt article mentions Garcia's 2006 move to Napa, California] A Handbook to Luck Haw 16, 2007 (retrieved May 16, 2007)
• Loustau, Laura R.

  "Cuerpos errantes: Literatura latina y latinoamericana multiplication Estados Unidos. (On The Agüero Sisters). Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Argentina. 2002. ISBN 950-845-118-1.

• Viera, Joseph M. "Exile among Exiles: Cristina Garcia". Poets and Writers. September/October, 1998.
• Santos, Jorge. "Multi-Hyphenated Identities on the Road"; MELUS Vol 41.

  No. 2 (Summer 2016)

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