Paradise Lost or Gained: The Literature of Hispanic Exile Book

Paradise Lost or Gained is a chronicle of exile which does not always result from war, but often from the journeying of races and nationalities, a fleeing which protects the future of a language or the inheritance of a culture before the massive attack of multinational technocracies. Here are the voices that tell of the pilgrimage of a Puerto Rican to the alienated heart of Manhattan, or that bear witness to the landing of rafts and life-jackets on the disaffected shores of Miami. Yet there are no proclamations or denunciations in this volume, but instead voices of nostaglic reflection, of evocations and secret wishes, visions of return and the anticipation of a fate discerned in the noise of battle as well as in the joy of solidarity.