Recently added articles from Cuban Studies:
Tradition Meets Technology: Cuban Film Animation Enters the Global Marketplace
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The production and dissemination of Cuban animation has undergone dramatic transformation in recent years. Over the past decade alone, computer-generated images (CGIs) have replaced much of the hand drawing and painting, and the animation studio at Instituto Cubano de Arte e ...
Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts/Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island
Jan 01, 2008; ... Flora González Mandri. Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii, 232pp. Mary G. Berg, Pamela Carmel!, and Anne Fountain, eds., Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island. Nottingham, UK: CCC ...
Las empresas de Cuba 1958
Jan 01, 2008; ... Guillermo Jiménez, Las empresas de Cuba 1958. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2004. 732 pp. Pienso que uno de los méritos de esta obra radica en que el autor no se propuso deslumhrar a nadie. Su designio fue en todo momento ser útil, entregarles a los lectores cubanos de hoy ...
The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959-1965
Jan 01, 2008; ... Don Bohning, The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959-1965. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006. 320pp. In this book, The Castro Obsession, the former Latin American editor of the Miami Herald, Don Bohning, provides a good, concise overview of the efforts by the United ...
La agricultura en Cuba: Evolución y trayectoria (1959-2005)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Armando Nova González, La agricultura en Cuba: Evolución y trayectoria (1959-2005). La Habana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 2006. 316 pp. Armando Nova is the most prolific Cuban agricultural economist, author of twenty publications since 1988. This book is a compilation of his previous ...
Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1985 to 1991: Changing Perceptions in Moscow and Havana/The Cuban Embargo: The Domestic Politics of an American Embargo/Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact of the "Special Period"
Jan 01, 2008; ... Mervyn J. Bain, Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1985 to 1991: Changing Perceptions in Moscow and Havana. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. 164pp. Patrick J. Haney and Walt Wanderbush, The Cuban Embargo: The Domestic Politics of an American Embargo. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh ...
Las metáforas del cambio en la vida cotidiana: Cuba 1898-1902
Jan 01, 2008; ... Mariai Iglesias Utset, Las metáforas del cambio en la vida cotidiana: Cuba 1898-1902. La Habana: Editorial Unión, 2003. 285 pp. Un valioso acercamiento a uno de los períodos menos estudiados y más estereotipados de la historia de Cuba es el libro que nos proponemos comentar. Cuestionando ...
Expediciones, exploraciones y viajeros en el Caribe
Jan 01, 2008; ... Lohania J. Aruca Alonso y José María Camero Alvarez, Expediciones, exploraciones y viajeros en el Caribe. La Habana: Ediciones Unión, 2006. 374 pp. El Caribe fue el espacio primero donde se definió el destino de América a partir de la llegada de los españoles. A decir de la investigadora ...
Reflections on the Future of Cuba
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Those who have spent their lifetimes studying Cuba know that predicting its future has always been a fool's errand. Given the speculations that arose following the illness of Fidel Castro, I undertook the task, with some trepidation, of reflecting on that future. I argue that, ...
Pardos y morenos esclavos y libres en Cuba y sus instituciones en el Caribe hispano
Jan 01, 2008; ... Rafael L. López- Valdés, Pardos y morenos esclavos y libres en Cuba y sus instituciones en el Caribe hispano. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y El Caribe, 2007. 374 pp. El destacado antropólogo cubano, Rafael L. López- Valdés nos entrega nuevamente, en ...
Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería: Africa to Cuba and Beyond
Jan 01, 2008; ... Mercedes Cros Sandoval, Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería: Africa to Cuba and Beyond. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. 417 pp. The study of the role and contributions of particular African civilizations toward the creation of regional cultures in the New World is still ...
Preface
Jan 01, 2008; ... Volume 39 goes to press in a time of transition: presidential succession both in the United States and in Cuba, and perhaps the prospects of other changes to follow, some of which may directly affect the work to which mis journal is dedicated. The approach of the fiftieth anniversary of the ...
Martí, eros y mujer (revisitando el canon)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Mayra Beatriz Martínez, Martí, eros y mujer (revisitando el canon). La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2005. 143pp. El campo de los estudios en torno a la vida y la obra de José Martí es, sin duda, uno de los más significativo de la cultura cubana, tanto en cantidad como por la ...
Hard Work with the Mare Magnum of the Past: Nineteenth-Century Cuban History and the Miscelánea de Expedientes Collection
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article illustrates the enormous potential of the Miscelánea de Expethentes Collection for research on Cuban colonial history. This collection is located at the Cuban National Archive in Havana and comprises more than 4,000 boxes and 150,000 files covering from 1759 to ...
El Hijo de Guillermo Tell: Carlos Varela Confronts the Special Period
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The Special Period was an artistically fruitful and prolific period for both generations of the Nueva Trova, boasting a productivity and creativity rivaled only by that of the late 1960s and 1970s in Cuba. In fact, many of the songs composed during the Special Period are ...
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America/Cuba Transnational
Jan 01, 2008; ... Ricardo L. Ortiz, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 328 pp. Damián J. Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 216 pp. Ortiz's principal scholarly activity involves the intersection of ...
Norteamericanos en Cuba: Estudio etnohistórico
Jan 01, 2008; ... José Vega Suñol, Norteamericanos en Cuba: Estudio etnohistórico. La Habana: Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 2004. 309pp. Esta obra da continuidad a otras del propio autor como Presencia norteamericana en el área nororiental de Cuba: etnicidad y cultura (1991) y La arquitectura de perfil ...
Under the Volcanoes: The Influence of Guatemala on José Martí
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT José Martí, revered as an inspirational figure in the struggle for Cuban independence, lived most of his short but remarkable life in exile. Driven from the shores of colonial Cuba at the age of seventeen, Martí spent the next two decades formulating ideas about what a liberated ...
Economía del fin de siglo. Estudio histórico sobre la consolidación del capitalismo y las premisas de la República inaugurada el 20 de mayo de 1902
Jan 01, 2007; ... Fe Iglesias. Economía del fin de siglo. Estudio histórico sobre la consolidación del capitalismo y las premisas de la República inaugurada el 20 de mayo de 1902. Santiago de Cuba: Editorial Oriente, 2005. 301 pp. Más allá de las sugerencias de su título, esta obra se dedica en lo ...
General regreso
Jan 01, 2007; ... Newton Briones Montoto. General regreso. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2005, 435 pp. Mediante un acucioso rigor investigativo, el autor nos devela un período poco explorado de la etapa republicana, que a partir de la década de los 30 culmina con el golpe militar de Fulgencio ...