Will Arizona Censors Be Shocked by ‘King of Cuba’?
By Robert Friedman, Hispanic Link News Service
By Robert Friedman, Hispanic Link News Service
“The only ones who should be censored are the censors,” says Cristina García, commenting on an Arizona school district’s banning last week of “Dreaming in Cuban,” her 1992 novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award.
García is answering a question from the audience at a book festival on the National Mall in Washington. She then proceeds to read “for the benefit of the book banners,” one of the racier parts of her new novel, “King of Cuba.”
While the censors presumably have not yet had a chance to be shocked out of their knickers by “King of Cuba,” they did react, according to the Associated Press, to the complaints of two parents from the Sierra Vista, Arizona, school district over a sexually explicit scene from “Dreaming in Cuban,” The critically praised novel explores the ties among three generations of women during the Cuban Revolution.
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