Publications

Books

Cuban-American Narratives of Exile: From Person to Persona. Charlottesville and London : University of Virginia Press , 1998.
Rptd. 2000.

Reviewed in:
Hispania 86 (2003): 813-16; E.I.A.L., vol. 11 , no. 2 (2000); Modern Fiction Studies 45 (Winter 1999) 1045-50 ; American Literature 71 (June 1999): 379; Caribe 2 ( June 1999):136-41; Encuentro 14 (otoño 1999):218-221; Copley News Service (March 1999); Choice ( February 1999); The British Bulletin (April 1999); Library Journal (1998).
Web reviews: La Habana Elegante

Discontinuidad y ruptura en Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Gaithersburg: Ediciones Hispamerica, 1983). .

Reviewed in: Chasqui, vol. xii. (1982), pp. 76-77; Critica Hispanica vol. v (1983) 181-2; El Colombiano, July 10, 1983 "El enredado mundo de Guillermo Cabrera Infante"; Discurso Literario, vol. I (1984), pp. 308-9; Hispania, vol. 67, (1984), p. 312; Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, vol. x, (1986), p. 311-2; Hispamerica, no. 40 (1985), pp. 121-2.

Identity, Memory and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Philosophers, Writers, Poets and Artists,  co-editors , Jorge Gracia , Isabel Alvarez Borland, Lynette M.F. Bosch, SUNY Press, 2008.

In Press.

Anthology/principal editor.
Negotiating Identities in Cuban American Art and Literature, co-editors, Isabel Alvarez Borland, Lynette M.F. Bosch, submitted to SUNY Press, Wrote Introduction to Volume and essay: “Figures of Identity: Cabrera Infante and Ana Menendez’ Photographs”. Release date February 2009.

In Print
Articles/interviews

“Figuras de la Carencia en Antonio Jose Ponte”. Hispania, 90.3 (2007): 443-52.
“Fertile Multiplicities: Zoe Valdes and the 90s Generation,” in Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced.  Andrea Herrera, Ed. SUNY Press, 2007.  253-67.
“Entrevista con Leandro Soto by Isabel Alvarez Borland.” Afro-Hispanic Review 26.1(2007): 176-78.
“Huyendo de los humores.” Entrevista con Roberto Fernandez. Trad. Ambrosio Fornet.
Entre dos aguas. La Habana: Letras Cubanas. 135-49.

Translation
Isabel Alvarez Borland. “Fragmento de Nieve en la Habana:confesiones de un cubanito”[Waiting for Snow in Havana] by Carlos Eire. p. 551-557. In Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Edited by Marjorie Agosin.

“Cuban American Literature.” In  the  Encyclopedia Latina,:History, Culture, and Society in the United States. Grolier Academic Reference: Danbury Ct, 2005. vol. 2, pp. 462-67.

."Entrevista con Leandro Soto" and "US Cuban Literature since 1959." Both pieces to appear in Callaloo, 2004. Issue devoted to Cuban Literature in the U.S

In Print. Articles, Essays and Notes

"La lengua nómada: Orígenes y la diáspora de los 90." Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, vol 33 (verano 2004), pp. 265-74.

"A Reminiscent Memory": Lezama, Zoé Valdés and Rilke's Island ".  Modern Language Notes: Hispanic Issue, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2004, volume 119, no.2, pp. 344-362.

"Gustavo Pérez Firmat," chapter in Latino and Latina Writers. Ed. Alan West. MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, volume 2, pp. 717-736.

"Las raíces al desnudo: narradores cubanos en los Estados Unidos." In Guayaba Sweet:Literatura cubana en Estados Unidos. Ed. Laura P. Alonso and Fabio Murieta. Cadiz : Editorial Aduana Vieja, 2003, pp. 37-53.

"Poéticas híbridas: Gustavo Pérez Firmat y Pablo Medina ." Signos Literariosy Linguisticos." Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana , Mexico . Vol. III.I (enero-junio 2001): 147-57.**A version of this study was also published in the Proceedings of the Asociacion Nacional de Educadores Cubano-Americanos. Cuba : Exilio y Cultura. Miami : Universal, 2002. pp. 165-71.

"Narrativa escrita fuera de Cuba a partir de 1959." In Anales Literarios , vol 3, 2001. (pp.1-11). Ed. Jorge Febles.

"Literaturas de exilio y etnicidad: el caso de Cuba ." Caribe, (verano 2000): 15-26.

"Cortázar: On Critics and Interpretation." INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica, vol. 43-44 (1996): 157-67.

"Displacements and Autobiography in Cuban-American Fiction". World Literature Today, vol. 68 (winter 1994): 43--49.

"The Task of the Historian in El general en su laberinto." Hispania, vol. 76 (1993): 192-99.

"Versiones literarias: Sarduy y Cabrera Infante." Linden Lane XI (1992): 21-22.

"Identidad cíclica de Tres tristes tigres." Revista Iberoamericana: Special Issue Devoted to Cuban Letters. Vol. no. 154 (1991): 215-233.

"History, Myth, and Metafiction in One Hundred Years of Solitude" in Approaches to Teaching García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. This volume is part of the Modern Language Association's Series on Teaching World Masterpieces. NY: MLA, 1990: 89-97.

"Interior Texts in El amor en los tiempos del colera". Hispanic Review. vol. (1991): 175-186.

15. "Milagro en el Mercado Viejo: Metadrama y Racontto en O. Dragun." Alba de America: Revista Literaria. Vol. 7 (1989): 39-47.

"Readers, Writers, and Interpreters in Cabrera Infante's Texts." World Literature Today, vol. 61 (1987), pp. 553-58. Special Issue dedicated to Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

"Conciencia artística y autoridad narrativa en La familia de Pascual Duarte y Cronica de una muerte anunciada." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, vol. XI (1987), pp. 591-99.

La noche de los asesinos: Text, Staging, and Audience," Latin American Theater Review, vol. 20/1 (1986), pp. 37-49. Co-authored with David George.

Los ensayos de G. Cabrera Infante: Fragmentos y Experimentos," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, vol. xi (1986), pp.161-170.

"The Picaro's Journey in La Habana para un Infante difunto," Hispanofila, vol. 90 (1987), pp. 71-9.

"From Mystery to Parody: (Re) Reading of Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Symposium, vol. 38 (1984-5), pp. 278-87. Selected and reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, N.Y., 1989, pp. 219-227.

"La Habana para un Infante difunto: Cabrera Infante's Self-Conscious Narrative." Hispania, vol. 68 (1985), pp. 44-49.

"Victor Hugo, Gabriela Mistral, y l'Intertextualite," Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, vol. 18 (1984), pp. 371-381.

"El cine documental y las vinetas de G. Cabrera Infante," Explicacion de textos literarios, vol., xi (1982), pp. 3-11.

"Viaje verbal a La Habana. Ah! vana!" Interview with G. Cabrera Infante. Hispamerica, vol. X (1982), pp. 51-68.