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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.
La formación de la identidad cubana (el debate Saco-La Sagra)
Jose Antonio Saco y Ramón de la Sagra eran dos liberales que creían en conceptos de identidad distintos: el primero defendió la formación de una comunidad imaginada cubana, mientras que el segundo optó por un concepto de identidad peninsular, entendiendo por tal al castellano que mantenía a la isla de Cuba como una colonia. Para la historiografía nacionalista posterior, la polémica era un instrumento perfecto ya que ejemplificaba a un personaje que apoyaba el sistema cultural que se trataba de implantar desde la metrópoli frente a otro que defendía una identidad que pretendían convertir en cubana. Utilizando el enfrentamiento ideológico, el autor aborda el modo como se fueron formando las señas de identidad cubana en la primera mitad del siglo XIX
Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba
According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana’s founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authent...
