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Cuban Studies 40
Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography over the past fifty years; a profile of the work of historian Jos Vega Suol; and a remembrance of essayist and literary critic Nara Arajo, who also contributed an article on travel in Cuba for this volume.
World Editors
The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.
Afrocubanas
Originally published in Spanish and edited by Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo and playwright and theater critic Inés María Martiatu Terry, this ground-breaking edited collection is the first work of its kind. It places the experiences of black and mulata women at the center of Cuban history. Including essays from a mix of well-known and newly published Cuban authors, the volume examines the lives of Afrocubanas from the late nineteenth century to the present. The volume’s contributors collect and interrogate the voices of black Cuban women and the political, cultural, social, and ideological contributions they have made to the history of their nation. One of the unique qualities o...
Cuban Studies 38
Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.
Exile From Argentina
Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time when his ancestors immigrated in the 19th century from Byelorussia and Bessarabia to Argentina as a part of the Baron de Hirsch’s emigrant wave that established farming villages in the provinces of Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. Then, using his family’s history as background, he discusses his life as an exile in Israel ...
Estampas
Se reúnen doce testimonios escritos por Antonio Alatorre; algunos se publicaron, otros aparecen por primera vez. En uno de los dedicados a Octavio Paz, cita a Voltaire: "On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit, aux morts, que la verité". Y es ése, precisamente, el homenaje que aquí rinde a las figuras de Daniel Cosío Villegas, María Rosa Lida, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz y Tomás Segovia (el orden corresponde al año de escritura del testimonio). En esta obra encontramos también una entrañable y vívida semblanza de aquel "Centro de Estudios Filológicos" (1947-1962). Con sensibilidad e inteligencia, Alatorre brinda un sentido del espesor y complejidad de las personalidades de estos hombres y mujeres y de su trabajo, sin eludir sus gestos cotidianos, sus vanidades y sus contradicciones; y lo hace con la sinceridad, la generosidad y la honestidad del que ajusta cuentas con mentores y colegas, al mismo tiempo que las ajusta con él mismo. Martha Lilia Tenorio.
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometeus
Novelas como ésta no requieren presentación, pues son historias que traspasan lo meramente literario para pasar a formar parte de la cultura popular. Ése es el caso de Frankenstein, la inmortal obra maestra de Mary Shelley que ostenta un doble lugar de privilegio: por un lado, forma parte del selecto grupo de las novelas más destacadas del esplendoroso siglo XIX; por otro, presenta a uno de los más reconocibles símbolos del terror universal: la criatura o monstruo creada por el doctor Frankenstein. El joven Robert Walton acaba de llegar a San Petersburgo un 17 de diciembre... Lleno de vitalidad y confianza en sus capacidades, le escribe a su hermana diciendo que finalmente está listo para emprender su viaje marítimo hacia los confines de las regiones polares, a lanzarse hacia la aventura y llevar a cabo su gran proyecto de exploración científica...
Cuban Studies 37
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.
The great Gatsby
Esta novela, publicada en 1925, lanzó a Scott Fitzgerald al nivel de los clásicos, auténtico representante de los años dorados de una sociedad norteamericana que se desplomó con el crack del 29. Acumular riqueza para ocupar un lugar destacado en la sociedad es el motor de sus personajes, seres inconscientes que se mueven en un mundo vacío y artificial. Ésta es la historia del millonario hecho a sí mismo Jay Gatsby, a quien sólo le mueve una obsesión: recuperar un amor de juventud. Pero Daisy es hoy una muchacha que forma parte de una sociedad frívola y aburrida de sí misma, una criatura encantadora y también dañina. Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. Nic...
Valle-Inclán and the Theatre
The plays studied in this book constitute veritable landmarks in the affirmation of the dramatic voice of Spanish playwright Ramon del Valle-Inclan. The three plays, as this study shows, prove crucial to the development of a theatre of unparalleled innovative force in the annals of twentieth-century Spanish letters.
