caa a22 4500 463200128 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9005-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9005-0 Cox Annabel Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, England aut Gustavo Pérez Firmat's "Bilingual Blues” and "Turning the Times Tables”: Language Choice and Cultural Identity in Cuban-American Literature [Elektronische Daten] [Annabel Cox] Following a brief contextualization of bilingual Cuban-American literature in relation to both Latino writing and Cuban exile fiction, this article moves on to consider the meaning and placement of both the Spanish and English languages in Gustavo Pérez Firmat's poetry collection Bilingual Blues. It then turns to a close analysis of two of the mixed language poems of this text, namely "Bilingual Blues” and "Turning the Times Tables”. These are discussed in terms of suggested cultural affiliations and identifications, as indicated in the poet's use of not only languages but also imagery and intertextual reference. Such factors are also connected with certain theoretical debates regarding migration and identity in this article. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 63-81 0028-2677 91:1<63 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9005-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9005-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cox Annabel Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, England aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 63-81 0028-2677 91:1<63 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer