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    A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions"
    A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions"
    A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions"
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    A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions"

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    A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535817646
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      A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions" - Gale

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      African Passions

      Beatriz Rivera

      1995

      Introduction

      Beatriz Rivera’s short story African Passions first appeared in the Bilingual Review in 1995. In the same year, it was published by Arte Público Press in Rivera’s first full-length book, a collection of short stories titled African Passions and Other Stories. The reaction to this collection, as well as to her subsequent books, has been very positive, with most critics praising Rivera for her sense of humor and intelligence, as well as for her memorable characters.

      African Passions is a story about an ambitious and loving thirty-four-year-old woman, who, despite her lover’s ambiguous nature, believes that she and he will one day be married and have children. The tale covers one day in the couple’s life—a significant day, as by the end of the story they will have ended their fourteen-year-long relationship.

      This is no ordinary story about relationships, however, unless a cat being pushed out of the window to its death by Afro-Cuban gods that are conjured up to guide the protagonist through a difficult challenge is considered a commonplace occurrence. Woven through this plot are themes of love, compassion, and the ability to laugh at those unexpected details that add both sorrow and a better understanding of what is really important in life. Rivera has created lovable characters, both real and fantastic, with the out-of-the-world gods sometimes appearing more bona fide than the human beings.

      Author Biography

      Beatriz Rivera was born on September 27, 1957, in Havana, Cuba, but at the age of three, she immigrated to the United States (soon after Castro’s rise to power) with her parents, Mario Lorenzo and Aida (Rufin) Rivera. She lived with her family in Miami, Florida, until her high school years, when her parents sent her to Switzerland to complete her early education.

      When it was time to go to college, Rivera chose to live in France, where she attended the Sorbonne, majoring in philosophy and eventually receiving her master’s degree in 1979. Upon graduation, Rivera decided that she was not yet ready to return to the United States, so she found a job teaching English and Spanish in French schools. It was during this period that she also began writing her first novel.

      Rivera lived in Paris for ten years, believing that she would never return to the

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