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Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also French, Haitian Kreyòl, Angolan Portuguese, and English. Broad in its scope, this book encompasses such major figures as Gómez de Avellaneda, Heredia, Plácido, Manzano, Villaverde, Martí, Casal, Carpentier, L. Cabrera, Mañach, Loynaz, Piñera, Lezama Lima, and Cabrera Infante, as well as theatre and performance groups, film, post-revolutionary projects, post-1989 Special Period writers, and literature of Cuba's diasporas. It highlights four key features weaving through Cuban literary history: its engagement with international networks; its key role in cultural identity debates throughout Latin America; persistent debates about race, gender, and class; and the tropes of travel and movement-voluntary, exploratory, enslaved, migratory, or exilic.

16 CUBANERE, DRØMME OG OPSKRIFTEN PÅ DERES LIVRET For mange er et rynket ansigt af en gammel kvinde med en cigar i munden synonymt med Cuba. Eller de gamle amerikanske biler foran pastelfarvede bygninger. Vi kender alle de billeder, blandet med et billede af Che, men er dette virkelig Cuba i dag? ”A taste of Cuba: Faces, dreams and recipes” er en fotobog med portrætter af 16 cubanere, der giver et anderledes billede af Cuba; et land som fik internet i 2010, men stadig er et land, der er helt sit eget.KVINDELIG EVENTYRER I VOKSEN ALDER Birgitte Røddik er en dansk portrætfotograf som bor og arbejder i København, men som 56-årig besluttede sig for at følge ungdomsdrømmen om at krydse et ocean. Det lykkedes hende at finde en sejlbåd og besætning som ville være med på rejsen, og hun gennemførte sit eventyr ved at sejle på tværs af Atlanterhavet til Cuba.Under Birgitte Røddiks ophold på Cuba har hun med sit Hasselblad kamera ved hånden og rygsæk på ryggen undersøgt den cubanske kultur, deres selvforståelse, drømme og cubansk gastronomi. Coffeetable-bogen indeholder interviews og portrætfotos af 16 inspirerende cubanere, samt opskrifter på lokale retter og drinks.

Reinaldo Arenas nació en Holguín, Oriente, Cuba en 1943. El 7 de diciembre de 1990puso fin a su vida, responsabilizando a Fidel Castro de su decisión, en carta testamentoque escribió. Es considerado uno de los mejores escritores cubanos del siglo XX.Las páginas de este libro constituyen el homenaje de un grupo de creadores a ReinaldoArenas, el escritor más original, versátil, desenfadado e iracundo de su generación. Con escritossobre Reinaldo Arenas, su vida y su obra, de Luis de la PazJoaquín Gálvez, William Navarrete, JoséAbreu, Pío Serrano, Lourdes Arencibia, Julio Hernández Miyares, Carlos Victoria, Rodolfo MartínezSotomayor, Armando de Armas, Nicolás Abreu, Héctor Santiago, Nedda F. De Anhalt, AntonioConte y Esteban Luis Cárdenas.Un libro imprescindible para adentrarse en el alucinante mundo de Reinaldo Arenas, aunqueanochezca.***Reinaldo Arenas was born in Holguín, Oriente, Cuba in 1943. On December 7, 1990, he ended hislife and in a letter he left behind, he held Fidel Castro responsible for this final decision. He isconsidered one of the best Cuban writers of the twentieth century.The pages of this book constitute the tribute of a group of creators to Reinaldo Arenas, themost original, versatile, carefree and angry writer of his generation. With writings about ReinaldoArenas, his life and his work by Luis de la Paz, Joaquín Gálvez, William Navarrete, José Abreu, PíoSerrano, Lourdes Arencibia, Julio Hernández Miyares, Carlos Victoria, Rodolfo Martínez Sotomayor,Armando de Armas, Nicolás Abreu, Héctor Santiago, Nedda F. De Anhalt, Antonio Conte yEsteban Luis Cárdenas.An essential book to enter the amazing world of Reinaldo Arenas, even if it gets dark.

Can Love and Talents Survive Opposite Political and Economic Environments?This author believes that it is important to narrate how he has been affected by living under opposing political and economic systems.This book shows how the command economy differs from the market economy through the example of a highly qualified Cuban economist and scholar who has lived for decades in developing and developed market economy and command economy countries.Another very important and interesting aspect of this book is that it establishes the talents of this man's two big loves' -- his mother and his second wife -- as important and influential contributors in developing his behavior in the politico-socio-economic environment in which his life has so far taken place. This book is divided into four sections: CHAPTER I contains an analytic summary of chaotic situations in Cuba and the United States, in which he had personally participated. CHAPTER II is a comparison of the political, social, and economic advantages and disadvantages existing between the market and the command economies, and the social democracy according to his international scholarly and personal experience, in developing and developed countries, especially during the last half of the twentieth and the first two decades of the twenty-first centuries. CHAPTER III explains in depth what is meant by each one of this author's seven talents: reading and writing, pedagogy, tenacity, learning foreign languages, traveling around the world, singing, and being empathetic. CHAPTER IV explains how these talents are related to those of the two women who had considerably influenced the performance of his life.

Ernesto Ardura nació en La Habana en 1917 y falleció exiliado en Estados Unidos, donde tuvo que exilarse cuando en la Isla el castrismo acabó con la libertad de prensa. Hizo sus estudios superiores en la Universidad de La Habana, donde se graduó de abogado. Trabajó como redactor y columnista del periódico "El Mundo" desde 1941. Recibió en 1954 el Premio "Justo de Lara". Jorge Mañach escribió entonces: "El caso de Ardura es un caso de vocación, no tanto al periodismo como a las letras en general. Un buen día descubrimos en él un modo de expresión que yo llamaría suavemente firme. La sensibilidad ejercitada en lo literario, le servía para expresar los perfiles más fugaces de la actualidad. Tenía la aptitud para recordar lo permanente con motivo de lo efímero, que es lo más de desear en un articulista... En todos sus trabajos palpitaba una concepción fina, una nostalgia de los valores morales y una resistencia a aceptar que se llame realidad solo a lo sórdido y brutal, como si la historia no estuviese hecha también de los sueños y los pudores del hombre...".Este es su segundo libro publicado en el exilio. En 1980 apareció América en el Horizonte, publicado por Ediciones Universal. Residió en Wahington donde laboró en el Servicio de Información de Estados Unidos (USIS). Escribió una columna semanal en El Miami Herald desde marzo de 1980.En este libro estudia lo más trascendente de la historia de Cuba, lo que puede llevar a los cubanos a conocer el mejor camino para lograr la libertad, justicia, fraternidad y felicidad para todos, destino posible que deseaba para su país.***Ernesto Ardura was born in Havana in 1917 and died in exile in the United States. He completed his higher education at the University of Havana, where he graduated as a lawyer. He worked as an editor and columnist for the newspaper "El Mundo" since 1941. He received the "Justo de Lara" Award in 1954. Jorge Mañach then wrote: "The case of Ardura is a case of vocation, not so much to journalism as to letters in general. One day we discovered in him a mode of expression that I would call gently firm. The sensitivity exercised in literature served to express the most fleeting profiles of today. He had the ability to remember the permanent on the occasion of the ephemeral, which is the most desirable thing in a columnist... In all his works there was a fine conception, a nostalgia for moral values and a resistance to accepting that it should only be called reality. to the sordid and brutal, as if history were not also made of the dreams and modesty of man..." This is his second book published in exile. In 1980, América en el Horizonte appeared,published by Ediciones Universal. He lived in Washington where he worked at the United States Information Service (USIS). He wrote a weekly column in The Miami Herald from March 1980.In this book he studies the most important aspects of Cuban history, which can lead Cubans to know the best path to achieve freedom, justice, fraternity and happiness for all, a possible destiny that he desired for his country.

Octavio R. Costa (1915-2005) fue, sin dudas, uno de los intelectuales, periodista e historiadorcubano, más importante de la época republicana de Cuba y del exilio cubano. Entre sus obrasresaltan, Imagen y Trayectoria del Cubano en la Historia, en dos volúmenes, las biografías deMaceo y Juan Gualberto Gómez y Cubanos de Acción y Pensamiento, con las biografías de 65protagonistas de la historia de Cuba.Manuel Antonio Sanguily Garritte (1848-1925) fue un patriota cubano que luchó en la Guerra de los Diez Años, llegando a alcanzar el grado de coronel. Participó activamente en la política durante los primeros años de la República, siendo reconocido siempre por su honesto y brillantes servicios diplomáticos. Delegado a la Asamblea Constituyente de 1901, se opuso a la Enmienda Platt y a la tentativa de intervención militar de Estados Unidos de 1912. Fue el primer presidente del Senado de 1902. Conocer la historia de los fundadores de la Nación cubana es importante para consturir un futuro feliz para Cuba.***Octavio R. Costa (1915-2005) was, without a doubt, one of the most important Cuban intellectuals, journalists and historians of the Republican era of Cuba and the Cuban exile. Among his works are: Imagen y Trayectoria del Cubano en la Historia, in two volumes, the biographies of Maceo and Juan Gualberto Gómez and Cubanos de Acción y Pensamiento, with the biographies of 65 protagonists in the history of Cuba.Manuel Antonio Sanguily Garritte (1848-1925) was a Cuban patriot who fought in the Ten Years' War, reaching the rank of colonel. He actively participated in politics during the first years of the Republic, always being recognized for his honest and brilliant diplomatic services. Delegate to the Constituent Assembly of 1901, he opposed the Platt Amendment and the attempted militaryintervention of the United States in 1912. He was the first president of the Senate in 1902. Knowing the history of the founders of the Cuban Nation is important to build a happy future for Cuba.

Enrique Labrador Ruiz, periodista, novelista, ensayista, cuentista y poeta cubano, nació en Sagua la Grande, Cuba, el 11 de mayo de 1902. Fue miembro de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua y también de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Labrador Ruiz fue un hombre culto y viajado que creó su propio estilo de escribir novelas, que llamó gaseiforme. En 1933 publicósu primera novela de este estilo, El laberinto de sí mismo, que forma una trilogía con Cresival (1936) y Anteo (Novela gaseiforme) (1940). Con su colección de cuentos, El gallo en el espejo (1953), estableció su estilo cuentería cubiche. En sus obras descubrió la neblinosidad mental como característica de lo cubano. En 1976, Labrador Ruiz y su esposa María (Cheché) fueron exiliados de Cuba.Después de residir en España y Venezuela, se mudaron y mantuvieron su residencia permanente en Miami, Florida, donde falleció en 1991. Durante sus años de exilio, Labrador Ruiz escribió para muchas revistas literarias y periódicos. Recibió numerosos premios y honores por sus obras literarias. En Cuba, Conejito Ulán ganó el Premio Hernández Catá en 1946, y en 1950 su novela Sangrehambrienta ganó el Premio Nacional de Literatura. Su obra final fue Cartas a la Carte (Ediciones Universal, Miami, 1991), que decía era también neblinosa, con una prosa que muestra la excesividad y la insuficiencia cubanas. La primera verbal y la segunda moral.***Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Cuban journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer and poet, was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on May 11, 1902. He was a member of the Cuban Academy of the Language and also of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. Labrador Ruiz was a cultured and well-traveled man who created his own style of writing novels, which he called gaseiforme. In 1933 he published his first novel of this style, El Laberinto de sí mismo, which forms a trilogy with Cresival (1936) and Anteo (Novela gaseiforme) (1940). With his collection of stories, El gallo en el espejo (1953), he established his cubic style of storytelling. In 1976, Labrador Ruizand his wife María (Cheché) were exiled from Cuba. After residing in Spain and Venezuela, they moved and maintained permanent residence in Miami, Florida, where he died in 1991. During his years of exile, Labrador Ruiz wrote for many literary magazines and newspapers. He received numerous awards and honors for his literary works. In Cuba, Conejito Ulán won the Hernández CatáPrize in 1946, and in 1950 his novel Sangre hambrienta won the National Literature Prize. His final work was Cartas a la Carte (1991) published by Ediciones Universal.

Reinaldo Arenas nació en Holguín, Oriente, Cuba en 1943. El 7 de diciembre de 1990, exiliado, pusofin a su vida, responsabilizando a Fidel Castro de su decisión, en carta testamento que escribió. Esconsiderado uno de los mejores escritores cubanos del siglo XX.Este libro, escrito a los 22 años, es el primero de los cinco libros que componen la pentagoníaareniana. Deslumbrante en su forma, llena de un impulso telúrico y una frescura profunda como losríos de la tierra de la que nace, esta obra escrita por un adolescente alucinado y genial. Celestino esuna defensa de la libertad y la imaginación creadora sobre la miseria, la barbaria y la ignorancia. Uncanto a la rebeldía y un ejemplo del poder trascendente de la literatura.Reinaldo Arenas was born in Holguín, Oriente, Cuba in 1943. On December 7, 1990, in exile, heended his life, blaming Fidel Castro for his decision, in a letter of testament that he wrote. He isconsidered one of the best Cuban writers of the 20th century.This book, written at the age of 22, is the first of the five books that make up the Arenianpentagony. Dazzling in its form, full of a telluric impulse and a deep freshness like the rivers of theland from which it is born, this work written by a hallucinated and brilliant young man. Celestinois a defense of freedom and creative imagination over misery, barbarity and ignorance. A song torebellion and an example of the transcendent power of literature.

Humberto López Morales (La Habana, 1936), se licenció en Lingüística en la Universidad de La Habana y en 1960 en Filología Románica en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde más tarde se doctoró en 1962. Fue profesor en las universidades de New Hampshire, Austin y Rice de Texas y de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras. Por muchos años se desempeñó como Secretario General de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, con sede en la Real Academia Española. Ha publicado más de 50 libros. Ha recibido premios de casi todos los países hispanoamericanos y la Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio, de España y doctor honoris causa de las universidades de Valladolid, Alicante, Alcalá, Costa Rica, Lima, Lérida, Sevilla, Chile, Argentina, Santo Domingo, Panamá, Valencia, Alemania, Cádiz y otras. En este libro estudia el contacto lingüistico entre el español y el inglés en la comunidad cubana del Gran Miami, que ha llegado a convertir a los Estados Unidos en uno de los primeros países hispanohablandes del mundo.***Humberto López Morales (Havana,1936). graduated in Linguistics from the University of Havana and in 1960 in Romance Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he later received his doctorate in 1962. He was a professor at the universities of New Hampshire, Austin and Rice in Texas and the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. For many years he served as Secretary General of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, based at the Royal Spanish Academy. He has published more than 50 books. He has received awards from almost all Latin American countries and the Civil Order of Alfonso X, el sabio of Spain. He also received honorarydoctorate from the universities of Panama, Valencia, Germany, Cádiz and others. In this book he studies the linguistic contact between Spanish and English in the Cuban community of Greater Miami, which has turned the United States into one of the first Spanish-speaking countries in the world.

Enrique Ros -investigador histórico acreditado en los Archivos Nacionales de los EstadosUnidos y en las bibliotecas de importantes universidades, se ha dedicado a la más acuciosa recopilaciónde documentos, entrevistas y materiales que le han permitido la publicación de libros altamenteelogiados por la seriedad de investigación que refleja su contenido. Ros ha publicado 14 valiososlibros sobre el proceso revolucionario cubano que se han convertido en obligatorias obras dereferencia.Este libro es un serio aporte para conocer a quien los cubanos consideran el Padre de laPatria por haber comenzado la lucha por la independencia en 1868. Es producto de una profundainvestigación y recoge en sus páginas numerosos hechos relevantes, muchos de ellos inéditos y,otros, poco conocidos. La Demajagua, Guáimaro, Palo Seco, Las Guasitas, el Naranjo, La Indiana,son páginas que, en la Guerra de los Diez Años, iluminan la historia de Cuba. Bijagual y SanLorenzo, capítulos que la ensombrecen. La deposición del Padre de la Patria, fue, desafortunadamenteun hecho de dolorosa trascendencia para la revolución cubana porque sentó las bases de futurasescisiones y deposiciones impuestas por el uso o la amenazante presencia, de fuerzas militares. Ellibro se enriquece con extensa bibliografía que incluye, por primera vez, cerca de una veintena deobras publicadas antes de 1895 en Cuba, España, Estados Unidos y Colombia, por contemporáneosde aquellos hechos, numerosas obras sobre esos temas históricos editadas en Cuba antes de enerode 1959, así como libros publicados, después de llegado Castro al poder, con discrepancias ycoincidencias, por historiadores radicados en Cuba y en el destierro.***4Enrique Ros, accredited historian to the National Archives of the United States and manyimportant university libraries, has dedicated himself to researching and uncovering previouslyclassified information that have permitted the publication of his tem books detailing the evolutionof the Cuban Revolution.Carlos Manuel de Cespedes: de Yara a San Lorenzo is a major contribution for getting toknow the man Cubans consider the "Father of the Nation" for starting the fight for independence in1868. The book is the product of deep research and points out many relevant facts, many of themunpublished until now and others lesser known that shed light on the struggle for Cuban independenceand Cuban history as a whole. Cespedes' displacement was unfortunately a painful fact of muchsignificance for the Cuban revolution because it laid the foundation for future divisions imposed bythe looming presence of military forces. The book is enriched by an extensive bibliography of adozen works published before 1895 by contemporaries of those events. Also included are numeroushistorical works on these subjects published in Cuba before January 1959, as well as many publishedafter Castro reached power, by historians living in Cuba and in exile.

A thorough examination of the history of Cuba, focusing primarily on the period from the revolution in 1959 to the present day.This historical overview connects significant events from Cuba's past with the country's current social and political changes. Author Clifford L. Staten reviews the changing landscape of Cuba and explores subjects such as the relationship between the domestic and international political economy of Cuba; the successes and failures of Castro's revolution; the importance of the U.S. role in Cuban politics and commerce; and the problems associated with an agricultural fiscal structure based upon sugar.The revised edition includes additional biographies of key figures from recent history and an expanded bibliography of notable resources. Updated content features a look at censorship issues with the rise of the Internet and social media in Cuba and the transfer of power to Raul Castro in 2006. Other topics include Spanish colonialism, the struggle for independence, Castro's revolution, the Cold War, and the impact of globalization.

A comprehensive anthology with more than 30 speeches that span five decades by Fidel Castro, one of history’s greatest orators.Emerging in the 1960s as a leading voice in support of anticolonial struggles, then continuing to play a role in the antiglobalization movement in the subsequent decades, Fidel Castro was an articulate and penetrating—if controversial—political thinker and leader, who outlasted ten US presidents.Covering five decades of Fidel’s speeches, this selection begins with his famous courtroom defense (“History will Absolve Me”), and also includes his speech on learning of Che Guevara’s death in Bolivia, his analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With his declining health and the emergence of new leaders such as Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, this book sheds light not just on Castro’s mighty role in Latin America’s past, but also on his legacy for the future. Love him or hate him, this anthology demonstrates that Fidel Castro is a “master of the spoken word,” as Gabriel García Márquez has described him.The Fidel Castro Reader includes a chronology of the Cuban Revolution, an extensive glossary and index as well as 24 pages of photos.

Through vivid accounts, readers gain an insight into the complex dynamics that force religious activities into narrow state-defined confines. The book is a call to action, prompting reflection and inspiring action by the readers.

Guantánamo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In A New No-Man's-Land, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive of materials produced both at the US naval base and in neighboring Cuban communities and proposes an understanding of Guantánamo as a coherent borderland region, where experiences of isolation are opportunities to find common ground. She analyzes poetry, art, memoirs, and documentary films produced on both sides of the border. Authors and artists include prisoners, guards, linguists, chaplains, lawyers, and journalists, as well as Cuban artists and dissidents. Their work reveals surprising similarities: limited access to power and self-representation, mobility restricted by geography if not captivity, and immersion in political languages that have ascribed them rigid roles. Read together, the work of these disparate communities traces networks that extend among individuals in the Guantánamo region, inward to Cuba, and outward to the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.

This book presents aspects of the Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford¿s administration (August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977), and the oscillations between carrot and stick that was its hallmark. The book¿s Cuban perspective complements the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the mid-1970s.

How a boisterous fruit importer aided a revolution that triggered a war