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Playing with light : a novel. by. Rivera, Beatriz, 1957-. Books for People with Print Disabilities.

Playing with light : a novel. Internet Archive Books. t on September 20, 2011.

Playing with Light book. Born in Havana, Beatriz Rivera came to Miami at the age of three, soon after Castro's rise to power in Cuba.

Rebecca Barrios, a well-off Miami Beach housewife (and she hates that description, by the way), has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or women's get-together

Rebecca Barrios, a well-off Miami Beach housewife (and she hates that description, by the way), has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or women's get-together.

Beatriz Rivera cleverly conveys the experience of the Latina woman attempting to reconcile her heritage and her existence within the greater construct of the American society in her short stories and novels

Oddly, as they get ever deeper into the story of the Santa Cruzes-especially Tico and Lolo-strange things begin to happen to the reading group. Everyone seems to b. .and affected (not necessarily pleasantly) by the saga. Beatriz Rivera cleverly conveys the experience of the Latina woman attempting to reconcile her heritage and her existence within the greater construct of the American society in her short stories and novels More about Beatriz Rivera.

In her novel Playing with Light (2000), Rivera invents a world where the lines between national histories, collective myths . I interviewed Beatriz Rivera in Houston on December 1, 2000, during her book tour for Playing with Light.

In her novel Playing with Light (2000), Rivera invents a world where the lines between national histories, collective myths, and individual memories blur, foregrounding the dynamic interplay of time and geopolitical space as experienced by old and new generation Cuban American women. Rivera's women characters look to Cuba's past-when novels were read to tobacco factory workers in the nineteenth century-to form a Latina-based tertulia (get-together) for reading counter-resistant histories and stories.

Personal Name: Rivera, Beatriz, 1957-. Publication, Distribution, et. Houston, Tex. Download book Playing with light : a novel, by Beatriz Rivera online for free. Houston, Te.Arte Pâublico Press, (c)2000.

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The photo is courtesy of the Abington Journal/Joan Mead-Matsui. I was born in Cuba, raised in Miami, finished high school in Switzerland, spent the next ten years of my life in Paris, France, where I earned a master's degree in Philosophy

The photo is courtesy of the Abington Journal/Joan Mead-Matsui. I was born in Cuba, raised in Miami, finished high school in Switzerland, spent the next ten years of my life in Paris, France, where I earned a master's degree in Philosophy. After that I moved to New York, then New Jersey, then back to New York and in the meantime I earned a PhD and had several novels publised. Now I am an Associate Professor at Penn State University.