RUTH BEHAR is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, USA.
 
LUC?A M. SUÁREZ is Associate Professor of Spanish at Amherst College, USA.

Notes on a Voyage to Germany; C.A.Aguilera Diary of a Return to the Native Land; N.Araújo The Woman Who Wanted Bridges; R.Behar Wherever That May Be; R.Blanco Poems from Chile; D.Calderón A Cuban Sociologist in Puerto Rico; J.Duany  A Cuban Dorothy; E.Rivero Ceremony for a Desperate Actress; A.Estevez Haiku Series Art-work; R.García Caminos; M.Islas Exile and Bouganvilia; J.Kozer An Interview with Ena Lucía Portela; I.López Piedra Jaimanitas; R.Lowinger Two Sides of Me; V.Pérez-Konina A Cuban Poet Lives in London; P.Pérez-Sarduy Between Borders: Cubans in Mexico; R.Rojas Other Roads to Santiago; L.Ruiz Citizen of One World; K.Suárez Cuba in My Heart; L.M.Suárez

Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.