Recently added articles from Cuban Studies:
In Memoriam: Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-2005)
Jan 01, 2006; González, Eduardo ... Nada de eso es cierto. Era un hombre bajo y regordete, de temperamento sanguíneo y pupilas penetrantes. No disimulaba su calvicie. Interpuesto en este cameo de trazos caricaturales se retrata al autor de Mujer en traje de batalla (2001). Comparece ante sí mismo, próximo ya el final de la ...
Preface
Jan 01, 2006; Pérez, Louis A Jr ... The publication of volume 36 marks the inaugural issue of Cuban Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is fully appropriate at this moment of transition of editorial responsibility to acknowledge with heartfelt appreciation the valuable service of the past five years ...
La patria que nace de lejos: Cuba y lo cubano en la vanguardia de Martí
Jan 01, 2006; Méndez, Kenya C Dworkin y ... RESUMEN Este trabajo aborda la raíz histórica del concepto emigración en el contexto de cubanos que se trasladan a los Estados Unidos y la larga negociación política y de identidad que se manifestó en el sur de la Florida a partir de la Guerra de los Diez Años (1868-1878) hasta una ...
Prensa, política y prostitución en La Habana finisecular: El caso de La Cebolla y la "polémica de las meretrices"
Jan 01, 2006; Calvo, Beatriz ... RESUMEN Este trabajo analiza e interpreta los diferentes textes que polemizaron en torno a la prostitución hacia finales del siglo XIX y los relaciona con el conflicto cubano-español y con la formación del discurso nacionalista cubano. Centra su atención en el periódico La Cebolla, ...
Stretching the Limits of Gendered Spaces: Black and Mulatto Women in 1830s Havana
Jan 01, 2006; Mena, Luz ... ABSTRACT In a city mapped out by the elites to resemble nineteenth-century Paris, European and American visitors showed surprise at the scarcity of white women in Havana's public spaces. Meanwhile, black and mulatto women filled Havana's streets and plazas. They needed to in order to ...
Prosperity, Progress, and Wealth: Cuban Enterprise during the Early Republic, 1902-1927
Jan 01, 2006; Speck, Mary ... ABSTRACT Many historians see the first decades of the twentieth century in Cuba as a time of frustration and failure. An unhealthy dependence on U.S. trade and investment distorted Cuba's economy, they argue, while the incessant barrage of U.S. goods and culture undermined its national ...
Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century
Jan 01, 2006; Guevara, Gema R ... ABSTRACT In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations of a national identity. This article examines how the racialized discourse of blanqueamiento, or whitening, became part of a nineteenth-century literary narrative in which the casi ...
Fleeing the Revolution: The Exodus of Cuban Jewry in the Early 1960s
Jan 01, 2006; Kaplan, Dana Evan ... ABSTRACT The Cuban Revolution's economic policies destroyed the island's Jewish community as it had been in the 1950s, leaving only a small contingent remaining on the island. Most Jews were middle-class businessmen and the revolution's socialist policies undermined the economic basis of ...
Cuba en su imagen: Historia e identidad en la literatura cubana
Jan 01, 2006; Araújo, Nara ... Adrians Méndez Rodenas. Cuba en su imagen: Historia e identidad en la literatura cubana. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2002. 228 pp. El libro que reúne catorce ensayos de la profesora cubana Adriana Méndez Rodenas se conforma alrededor de algunos de los tópicos recurrentes en su prolífica ...
Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature
Jan 01, 2006; Echevarría, Roberto González ... Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2003.195 pp. Gustavo Pérez Firmat's task in Tongue Ties seems like a tall order, almost a reckless dare: to show how a very heterogeneous group of authors are somehow connected ...
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Jan 01, 2006; Dosal, Paul J ... Ernesto Che Guevara. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003; and David Deutschmann, ed. Che Guevara Reader, 2nd ed. Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003. The production of books, articles, clothing, accessories, posters, ...
Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba
Jan 01, 2006; Hollander, Gail ... Muriel McAvoy. Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.337 pp. In Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba, Muriel McAvoy brilliantly interweaves biography and history so that each illuminates ...
The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol
Jan 01, 2006; Kapcia, Antoni ... Servando Gonzalez. The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol. Oakland, Calif.: InteliBooks, 2001. 491pp. The book's title awakens the fear of superficiality and sensationalism, a fear regrettably borne out by this study that succeeds neither at establishing what exactly "the ...
Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales
Jan 01, 2006; Macaulay, Neill ... Antonio Rafael de la Cova. Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 537 pp. Confederate Colonel Ambrosio José Gonzales was the highest ranking Cubanborn officer on either side in the American Civil War. Despite ...
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Jan 01, 2006; Safa, Helen ... Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds. The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 723 pp. Aviva Chomsky and her colleagues have done cubanologos a great service in assembling this impressive volume. It contains about one ...
Sin azúcar no hay país: La industria azucarera y la economía cubana (1919-1939)
Jan 01, 2006; Sicotte, Richard ... Antonio Santamaría García. Sin azúcar no hay país: La industria azucarera y la economía cubana (1919-1939). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Universidad de Sevilla and Diputación de Sevilla, 2001. 624 pp. Antonio Santamaría's Sin azucar no hay pais is an important and ...
Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
Jan 01, 2006; Smith, Wayne S ... Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. 336 pp. There is an enduring and popular myth in the United States that we went to war with Spain in 1898 to free Cuba from the Spanish empire. Lou Ferez, for my money the ...
Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression
Jan 01, 2006; Stoner, K Lynn ... Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa, eds. Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003, 279 pp. Homosexuality, traditionally an unspeakable transgression in Hispanic and Latin American society, is at last out of the closet. Since ...
The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean/The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
Jan 01, 2006; Cooper, Sara E ... Linden Lewis, ed. The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 328 pp; and James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2004. 296 pp. "Sexual and ...
Travestismos culturales: Literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil
Jan 01, 2006; Duany, Jorge ... Jossianna Arroyo. Travestismos culturales: Literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, 2003. 285 pp. En este libra iluminador, Jossianna Arroyo se propone analizar varias narrativas literarias y ...