The Nation, June 19th, 1995
LIFE ON THE HYPHEN: The Cuban-American Way. By Gustavo PErez Firmat. Texas. 213 pp. $30. Paper $12.95. Both Gustavo Perez Firmat in Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way and Coco Fusco in English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas begin their journeys through personal exploration of their own Cuban-American identities, but each offers a radically different perspective on immigrant cultural encounters. While Perez Firmat reiterates the traditional path of ethnics becoming "American," Fusco proposes the more radical concept of hybridity, which suggests a transformatio...
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