The Cambridge history of Cuban literature / edited by Jacqueline Loss, Vicki Unruh.

Other author Loss, Jacqueline.
Other author Unruh, Vicky.
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Cambridge Histories
Subjects
Cuban literature--History and criticism.

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.
Abstract "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 has unfolded in multiple languages"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2024011546
ISBN9781009168342 (hardback)
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