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Perez-Firmat, Gustavo Francisco was born on March 7, 1950 in Havana, Cuba. Son of Gustavo Perez and Luz Maria Firmat. came to the United States, 1960.
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My Own Private Cuba: Essays on Cuban Literature and Culture
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Next Year in Cuba
(Gustavo Perez Firmat arrived in America with his family a...)
Gustavo Perez Firmat arrived in America with his family at the age of eleven. Victims of Castro's revolution, the Perez family put their life on hold, waiting for Castro's fall. Each Christmas, along with other Cuban families in the neighborhood, they celebrated with the cry, "Next Year in Cuba." Growing up in the Dade County school system and graduating from college in Florida, Perez Firmat was insulated from America by the nurturing sights and sounds of Little Havana. But gradually, as the Cuba of his birth receded farther into the past, he had become no longer wholly cubano, but increasingly a man of two heritages and two countries. In a searing memoir of a family torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. With one brother beset by personal problems and another embracing the very revolution that drove their family out of Cuba, Gustavo realized that the words "Next Year in Cuba" had, for him, taken on a hollow ring. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, Perez Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate his love of Cuba, while embracing the America he has come to cherish.
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Gustavo Francisco Perez-Firmat
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Gustavo Francisco Perez-Firmat, Cuban, American writer, language educator. Fellow American Council Learned Societies, 1981, Guggenheim Foundation, 1986; senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1985. Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences; member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese, American Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
AB, Master of Arts, University Miami, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1979.
Career
Instructor, department Romance studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1978—1979, assistant professor, 1979—1983, associate professor, 1983—1988, professor, 1988—1999, North Carolina, 1988-1989. David Feinson professor in Humanities Columbia University, New York City, since 1999.
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Next Year in Cuba
(Gustavo Perez Firmat arrived in America with his family a...)
- My Own Private Cuba: Essays on Cuban Literature and Culture
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Next Year in Cuba
Membership
Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese, American Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Rosa Perelmuter, August 12, 1973 (divorced 1990). Children: David, Miriam. Married Mary Anne Adamson, February 9, 1991.
Education
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1973
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1979
Career
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1978 - 1979
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1988 - 1989
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1999