Worm : a Cuban American odyssey
(Graphic Novel)
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New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
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LC Subjects
Comics (Graphic works)
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cuba -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cuban American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Political refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Political socialization -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Rodriguez, Edel -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cuba -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cuban American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Political refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Political socialization -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Rodriguez, Edel -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Published
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Format
Graphic Novel
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimatelycelebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rodriguez, E. (2023). Worm: a Cuban American odyssey (First edition.). Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rodriguez, Edel. 2023. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rodriguez, Edel. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rodriguez, Edel. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey First edition., Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
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