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The Cambridge history of Cuban literature /

Written from a 21st century critical perspective, this book tells the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the 17th century to the 21st century. It highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story about a body of creative work that...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Unruh, Vicky (Editor), Loss, Jacqueline (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Cuban literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Unfinished histories / Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss
  • Silvestre de Balboa's Espejo de paciencia and the unfinished foundational story of Cuban literature / Raúl Marrero-Fente
  • José Martín Félix de Arrate's enlightenment discourse of Cuban exceptionalism / Mariselle Meléndez
  • Alexander von Humboldt and the cultural invention of Cuba among its nineteenth century intellectual elite / Daylet Domínguez
  • Philosophy and pedagogy in Varela, Luz y Caballero, and Varona / Vicente Medina
  • Mercedes Merlin and the rhetoric of life writing, exile, and race / Roberto Ignacio Díaz
  • The lyric vernacular of Cuban romanticism / Rachel Price
  • Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda as literary precursor and transatlantic intellectual / Adriana Méndez Rodenas
  • Racialized futures : slavery, miscegenation, and speculative literature / Gerard Aching
  • Journalism and nineteenth-century literary culture / Víctor Goldgel-Carballo
  • José Martí as hemispheric visionary / Esther Allen and Pedro Pablo Rodríguez
  • Julian del Casal and the other faces of Cuban modernismo / Norge Espinosa Mendoza
  • Performance worlds of nineteenth-century Cuban theatre / Jill Lane
  • The literary intellectuals of the early Cuban republic / Ángel Esteban and Yannelys Aparicio Molina
  • The invention of the Black Cuban in the early twentieth century / Odette Casamayor Cisneros
  • The fluid expressive communities of Cuba's interwar avant-gardes / Vicky Unruh
  • Lydia Cabrera and Afro-Caribbean imaginaries / Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
  • The fictions of new urban subjects / Jorge Marturano
  • The aesthetics of Dulce María Loynaz / Zaida Capote Cruz
  • José Lezama Lima and the orbits of Orígenes / César Salgado
  • Alejo Carpentier and Cuba's literary twentieth century / Anke Birkenmaier
  • The weighted literary islands of Virgilio Piñera / Thomas F. Anderson
  • Beginnings : testimonios, experimentalism, and their legacies / Par Kumaraswami
  • Imagining Cuba's new revolutionary communities through film (1959-1989) / Jessica Gordon-Burroughs
  • Shaping new cultural literacies / Paloma Duong
  • The social life of music in Cuban literary culture / Alexandra Vazquez
  • Casa de las Américas and revolutionary configurations of Latinoamericanismo idalia / Morejón Arnaiz
  • The travels of fiction in the Cuban diaspora / Rafael Rojas
  • Cuba's poetic imaginary (1959-1989) / Kristin Dykstra
  • The artistic worlds of Guillermo Cabrera Infante / Isabel Alvarez Borland
  • The diasporic odysseys of Reinaldo Arenas and his writing / José Quiroga
  • Alternative cultural projects and their histories / Walfrido Dorta
  • Ediciones Vigía and the cultural legacies of Matanzas / Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
  • The fiction of Cuba's special period / Esther Whitfield
  • Critique and decentralization in Cuban film after 1989 / Ann Marie Stock and Dean Luis Reyes
  • The temporality of twentieth and twenty-first century Cuban Theatre / Camilla Stevens
  • The long reach of Haiti in Cuban literature / Elzbieta Sklodowska
  • Cuban afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan revolutions / Lanie Millar
  • Anti-exceptionalism in detective fiction, speculative fiction, and graphic novels / Emily Maguire
  • Cuban women's writing at the millennium's turn / Mabel Cuesta
  • Queering the revolution and its diasporas / David Tenorio
  • The performance art of global Cuba / Bretton White
  • Twenty-first-century Cuban film and diaspora / Dunja Fehimović and Zaira Zarza
  • Cuba's poetic imaginary (1989-2020) / Marta Hernández Salván and Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez
  • Prose narratives from Cuban America / Iraida López
  • Cuban theatre of the diaspora in the United States / Lillian Manzor
  • Teleology, tempests, and voicings of history / Alan West-Durán.