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"“You Are the Heirs of All My Terrors,” has its title taken from Reinaldo Arenas’ suicide note and is listed as being authored by Arenas’ character, “Celestino D’Alba.” (Letter)

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"“The Boy Who Was Rescued by Fish” was “written by” Teresa de la Landre, a character from Menendez’s own Loving Che. " (Letter)

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" Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea inspired by the Cuban town
Cojimar. “Ernesto del Camino” (fictionally) authors the story “Cojimar” in Adios, Happy
Homeland!, but this tale is inspired more by the story of Elian Gonzalez than by Moby Dick. "(Letter)

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"You get less and less variation the further you go from Africa." (Mukherjee)

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"You get less and less variation the further you go from Africa." (Mukherjee)

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"Living humans are endowed with the evolutionary history of our species in our genomes. It is as if we premaritally carry a photograph of each of our ancestors in our wallets" (Mukherjee)

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In the air (intertextuality between the stories)

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In the air (intertextuality between the stories)

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In defense of flying:
"These are just some of the things that i think about when I'm up there alone, no fliers for miles, just me and the air above me and the air beneath me and the earth below crowded with little cars and little houses where now and then I catch the outline of my shadow-wings." (Menendez, Adios Happy Homeland, p 62)
The Parachute maker:
"Sometimes he would stitch sayings along the inner hem: Live thy life as if it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly." (Menendez, Adios Happy Homeland, p 78)

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The Zodiac (intertextuality between the stories)

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The Zodiac (intertextuality between the stories)

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You are the Heirs of all my Terrors:
"When next I turned my eyes up, I noticed a breach in the sky, a small hole near Pisces." (Menendez, Adios happy homeland, p 17)
Redstone
"Now if we pass Aries and go here to Pisces," the young man continued, "those of you with good eyesight might notice a small dark patch. This is not tobacco smoke. It's actually a hole." (Menendez, Adios happy homeland, p 123)

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You are the Heirs of all my Terrors:
"At Aries the balloon lingered for a moment and I thought it would rest there until it ran out of helium and floated down to earth." (Menendez, Adios happy homeland, p 17)
Redstone:
"As the television flickered with jubilant images, he told me of two families who concocted a bold, elaborate plan for escape after watching a child's balloon float innocently over the wall from the other side" (Menendez, Adios happy homeland, p 114)

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WHAT IS INTERTEXTUALITY? | LITERARY THEORY COURSE

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WHAT IS INTERTEXTUALITY? | LITERARY THEORY COURSE

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WHAT IS INTERTEXTUALITY? | LITERARY THEORY COURSE