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Writing to Cuba

Author : Rodrigo Lazo
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876429
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Writing to Cuba written by Rodrigo Lazo and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States. Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo argues that to understand these writers and their publications, we must move beyond nation-based models of literary study and consider their connections to both Cuba and the United States. Anchored by the publication of Spanish- and English-language newspapers in the United States, the transnational culture of writers Lazo calls los filibusteros went hand in hand with a long-standing economic flow between the countries and was spurred on by the writers' belief in the American promise of freedom and the hemispheric ambitions of the expansionist U.S. government. Analyzing how U.S. politicians, journalists, and novelists debated the future of Cuba, Lazo argues that the war of words carried out in Cuban-U.S. print culture played a significant role in developing nineteenth-century conceptions of territory, colonialism, and citizenship.

A Contemporary Cuba Reader

Author : Philip Brenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742555062
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A Contemporary Cuba Reader written by Philip Brenner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that explore a wide range of topics related to Cuban politics, economics, foreign policy, social transformation, and culture in the post-Soviet era.

Readers and Writers in Cuba

Author : Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131794559X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Readers and Writers in Cuba written by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and universities, the printing press, the abolitionist movement and the exile community from 1810 through the post-war years. Subsequent sections trace literary life from the 1920s to 1958, focusing on the links between writers, readers, and the institutions that supported literary endeavors in the Cuban Republic. The remaining chapters address Cuban literary culture from 1959 through the 1990s. This first thorough study of Cuban print culture after the 1959 revolution fills a large gap in Latin American studies with original research in archives and journals. Analysis of the relationship between literature and contemporary Cuban society is grounded in the earliest Cuban vernacular literature born in the Spanish colony and redefined in the process of nation-building in the first half of the 20th century. The book also surveys Cuban literary production in the current period of transition, confronting issues of globalization, fragmentation, and Cuba's adjustment to a post-Cold War world.

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154567
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) written by Ada Ferrer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued--through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington--Barack Obama's opening to the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden--have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the influence of the United States on Cuba and the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. --

Readers and Writers in Cuba

Author : Pamela María Smorkaloff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815320999
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Readers and Writers in Cuba written by Pamela María Smorkaloff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Readers and Writers in Cuba

Author : Pamela Smorkaloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Cuban-American Literature of Exile

Author : Isabel Alvarez-Borland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918136
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Cuban-American Literature of Exile written by Isabel Alvarez-Borland and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.

Cuban Women Writers

Author : M. Betancourt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614663
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Women Writers written by M. Betancourt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse.

One Island, Many Voices

Author : Eduardo del Rio
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816527144
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book One Island, Many Voices written by Eduardo del Rio and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban-American writers have been studied primarily within the context of Latino literature as a whole. Seeing a need to distinguish and define this unique literary perspective, Eduardo del Rio selected twelve important well-known authors and conducted interviews. He chose writers who were born in Cuba but have lived in the United States for a significant amount of time and whose works include themes he considers elemental to Cuban-American literature: identity, duality, memory, and exile. But rather than a cohesive, homogeneous group, these conversations unveiled a kaleidoscope of individuality, style, and motive. The authorsÕ bonds to Cuba inform their creative work in vastly different ways, and attempts to categorize their similarities only highlight the range of character and experience within this assemblage of talented writers. From playwright Dolores Prida to author and literary critic Gustavo PŽrez Firmat, these voices run the gamut of both genre and personality. In addition to the essential facts of literary accomplishment, the interviews include a wealth of insight into each writerÕs history, motivations, concerns, and relationship to language. These personal details serve to humanize and illuminate the unique circumstances and realities that have shaped both the authors and their work. What del Rio has ultimately brought together is a series of intimate sketches that will not only serve as an important reference for any discussion of the literature but will also help readers to develop for themselves a sense of what Cuban-American writing is, and what it is not. CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Nilo Cruz Roberto Fern‡ndez Cristina Garc’a Carolina Hospital Eduardo Machado Dionisio Mart’nez Pablo Medina Achy Obejas Ricardo Pau-Llosa Gustavo PŽrez Firmat Dolores Prida Virgil Su‡rez Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

One Island, Many Voices

Author : Eduardo R. del Rio
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548609
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book One Island, Many Voices written by Eduardo R. del Rio and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban-American writers have been studied primarily within the context of Latino literature as a whole. Seeing a need to distinguish and define this unique literary perspective, Eduardo del Rio selected twelve important well-known authors and conducted interviews. He chose writers who were born in Cuba but have lived in the United States for a significant amount of time and whose works include themes he considers elemental to Cuban-American literature: identity, duality, memory, and exile. But rather than a cohesive, homogeneous group, these conversations unveiled a kaleidoscope of individuality, style, and motive. The authors’ bonds to Cuba inform their creative work in vastly different ways, and attempts to categorize their similarities only highlight the range of character and experience within this assemblage of talented writers. From playwright Dolores Prida to author and literary critic Gustavo Pérez Firmat, these voices run the gamut of both genre and personality. In addition to the essential facts of literary accomplishment, the interviews include a wealth of insight into each writer’s history, motivations, concerns, and relationship to language. These personal details serve to humanize and illuminate the unique circumstances and realities that have shaped both the authors and their work. What del Rio has ultimately brought together is a series of intimate sketches that will not only serve as an important reference for any discussion of the literature but will also help readers to develop for themselves a sense of what Cuban-American writing is, and what it is not. CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Nilo Cruz Roberto Fernández Cristina García Carolina Hospital Eduardo Machado Dionisio Martínez Pablo Medina Achy Obejas Ricardo Pau-Llosa Gustavo Pérez Firmat Dolores Prida Virgil Suárez Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida

Author : Carolina Hospital
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781561641048
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida written by Carolina Hospital and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- An anthology of the writings of 33 of the most important Cuban men and women of letters, such as Felix Varela, Jose Marti, Juana Borrero, Jose Yglesias, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- An enlightening and comprehensive introduction examines the historical importance of the Cuban contribution to Florida's heritage -- The works are presented in English, most translated here for the first time

Literary culture in Cuba

Author : Par Kumaraswami
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130327
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Literary culture in Cuba written by Par Kumaraswami and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100 interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going beyond the conventional approach (the study of individual authors and texts) and by going beyond the canon of texts known outside Cuba. It thus presents a historical analysis of the evolution of literary culture from 1959 to the present, as well as a series of more detailed case studies (on writing workshops, the Havana Book Festival and the publishing infrastructure) which reveal how this culture is created in contemporary Cuba. It thus contributes a new and complex vision of revolutionary Cuban culture which is as detailed as it is comprehensive.

Cuba and the Tempest

Author : Eduardo González
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877131
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cuba and the Tempest written by Eduardo González and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonzalez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonzalez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodovar. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonzalez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.

Selected Writings

Author : José Martí
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142437042
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings written by José Martí and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life. Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba

Author : Par Kumaraswami
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137559403
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba written by Par Kumaraswami and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a hybrid activity between elite and mass culture, with inherent social, rather than aesthetic or political, value. Whilst many traditional studies of Cuban literature assume either its subjugation to politics and ideology or, conversely, its role in resisting political discourse via a rather naïve notion of artistic freedom, this project explores the varied, dynamic and multiple ways in which literature works in Cuban society: as a catalyst for identity construction aimed at consensus and belonging, but also as an instrument of self-differentiation and self-definition, even in the more recent context of a more market-oriented system. The study reviews policy from 1959 to the present, and presents contemporary case studies exploring the social functions of literature for writers, readers and ordinary Havana residents.

The Cuba Reader

Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Cuba Reader written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe essential collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history and cultral writing from and about Cuba. The latest in the series that also includes the Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru Readers./div

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Cuban Literature

Author : Julio Martinez
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Cuban Literature written by Julio Martinez and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990-01-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martinez should be the first choice as a reference guide to writers in Cuba or in exile therefrom. Choice This one-volume dictionary is designed to acquaint the English-speaking public with creative writers who contributed significantly to Cuban literature between 1900 and the mid-1980s. Emphasizing literary figures who achieved some measure of international recognition, it presents alphabetically arranged profiles of approximately 120 authors, together with information on literary genres, selected magazines and journals, and influential critics. Each entry begins with a biographical sketch of the author, followed by a discussion of the writer's work and references to relevant critical commentary. A bibliography of major works and secondary sources is supplied for each writer. Essays on literary genres provide an overview of trends, styles, and characteristic features of the genres that have been of particular importance in Cuba since 1900. Written by a distinguished group of critics and scholars in the field, this dictionary will be a useful resource for studies in modern Latin American and Cuban literature.