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- ISBN 9780813066639
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Translated here into English, Gálvez's narrative mixes evocative descriptions with charming commentary to bring to life the early Cuban exile communities in Ybor City and West Tampa. The writer's sharp eye finds the local characters, the barber shops and electric streetcars, the city landmarks and new Cuban enclaves. One day, Gálvez offers his thoughts on the pro-independence activities of community leaders like Martín Herrera and Fernando Figuerdo. On another, our exiled bourgeois intellectual author wryly recounts his new life as a door-to-door salesman and lector reading aloud to workers in a cigar factory.
This scholarly edition includes photographs and newspaper clippings, a foreword on Gálvez's extraordinary pre-exile years, extensive notes to the translation, and a wealth of other supplementary material putting the author's life and work in context.
Noel M. Smith, deputy director and curator of Latin American & Caribbean Art at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, has translated many books and exhibition catalogs.
Andrew T. Huse, a librarian with the University of South Florida's Special Collections department, is the author of From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa.
