[NYTr] "Cuba in the American Imagination" - Nov 2 - Univ of Delaware

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Friday, Nov 2, 2007 4:00 PM  - Univ of Delaware. 

Firmat is the author of "Next Year in Cuba," a personal account of
his own family's immgration (in 1960 when he was 11) and adaptation,
and "Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-Amerian way" which talks about 
(mostly pop) cultural icons of Cuban and Cuban-American life. 
If anyone's near the Trabant university Center at the University
of Delaware, this looks worthwhile. (free). Perez Firmat's website
is: http://www.gustavoperezfirmat.com/  (start here before wikisurfing
for him, but he's got an entry on Wiki as well, and some of his book
reviews are online.)   -NY Transfer]

University of Delaware Press Release - Oct 16, 2007
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/oct/cuba101607.html

Talk on 'Cuba in the American Imagination' set Nov. 2

1:24 p.m., Oct. 16, 2007--Gustavo Pérez Firmat, a leading American
writer and cultural critic, will lecture on “Cuba in the American
Imagination” at 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, in Rooms 209-211 of the Trabant
University Center. The talk, sponsored by UD's Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, is the department's Distinguished Fall
Lecture.

A native of Cuba, Firmat is the David Feinson Professor in the
Humanities at Columbia University. After graduating from Miami-Dade
Community College, the University of Miami and the University of
Michigan, where he earned a doctoral degree in comparative literature,
he taught at Duke University for 20 years.

Firmat is the author of award-winning books on cultural criticism,
literary studies and poetry and fiction and has won prizes, grants and
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation and the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

His book, "Next Year in Cuba," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for
nonfiction, and his book, "Life on the Hyphen," won the Eugene M. Kayden
University Press National Book Award.

The free talk is open to the public. 
For more information, call (302) 831-6882.