Carnival and simulacra in Reinaldo Arenas's El color del verano -- Transposed words : mapping intertextuality in Leonardo Padura Fuentes' Mascaras -- The palimpsestuous (re)writing of the island as a dialogic practice : literature in the second degree in Abilio Estevez's Tuyo es el reino -- Erotic discourse : from the semiotic to the symbolic in Daina Chaviano's Casa de juegos -- (Re)writing the body as a feminine strategy : Yanitzia Canetti's Al otro lado -- Language unbound : Zoe Valdes' La nada cotidiana.
