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Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In 1980, having survived ostracism and incarceration in Cuba, he arrived in the United States during the Mariel boatlift. Ten years later, after struggling with poverty and AIDS in New York, Arenas committed suicide. Through insightful close readings of a selection of Arenas's works, including unpubl...
The International Directory of Government 2022
The International Directory of Government is the definitive guide to people in power in every part of the world. All the top decision-makers are included in this one-volume publication, which brings together government institutions, agencies and personnel from the largest nations (China, India, Russia, etc.) to the smallest overseas dependencies (Guadeloupe, Guernsey and Christmas Island, etc). Institutional entries contain the names and titles of principal officials, postal, e-mail and internet addresses, telephone and fax numbers where applicable, and other relevant details. Key features: - comprehensive lists of government ministers and ministries - coverage of state-related agencies and other institutions arranged by subject heading - details of important state, provincial and regional administrations, including information on US states, Russian republics, and the states and territories of India. Contents include: A comprehensive directory section organized by country or territory; Details of co-ordinating bodies, and of foundations, trusts and non-profit organizations; A full index of organizations, and indexes by main activity and by geographical area of activity.
El Lector
"El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures." —Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University The practice of reading aloud has a long history, And The tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. InEl Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba To The present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future hi...
Literary culture in Cuba
This book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100 interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going beyond the conventional approach (the study of individual authors and texts) and by going beyond the canon of texts known outside Cuba. It thus presents a historical analysis of the evolution of literary culture from 1959 to the present, as well as a series of more detailed case studies (on writing workshops, the Havana Book Festival and the publishing infrastructure) which reveal how this culture is created in contemporary Cuba. It thus contributes a new and complex vision of revolutionary Cuban culture which is as detailed as it is comprehensive.
De donde crece la palma
Este librito supone un recorrido sui generis por la historia de la literatura cubana, a través de autores y obras trascendentales. Las semblanzas críticas que lo conforman han ido apareciendo en una columna que mantuve en la sección Rinconete del Instituto Miguel de Cervantes, entre 2005 y 2009. Ordenadas aquí de forma cronológica, permiten al lector acceder a un panorama de la literatura cubana a través de sus principales exponentes, traspasando el tiempo, tendencias, movimientos artísticos y avatares históricos. […] Si algo tienen de valor los textos reunidos aquí será que están impregnados de anécdotas, testimonios que rescato porque no merecían ser olvidados y análisis poco convencionales de los que considero podrían ser los cien autores más significativos de la literatura cubana hasta hoy.
Wherever I Lie is Your Bed
This text collects the poetry and fiction of 30 different authors from multiple languages, focusing on feelings of vulnerability and transposed sense of place
Narcotráfico en tiempos convulsos
El narcotráfico es un peligro real ara la seguridad planetaria. En este texto los autores nos toman de la mano y nos hacen viajar por el corrupto y singular mundo del tráfico de estupefacientes y la lucha que las fuerzas del orden tienen contra este flagelo que, irónicamente, está aupado y protegido por aquellos con los recursos para detenerlo.
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Yo voces
Sus poemas traen a la poesía cubana una elegancia sentenciosa y a la vez displicente, un abandono de sabor oriental y sin embargo una precisión a lo Paul Celan [...]. Ha de encontrar el lector en ellos un suave sabor bizantino, un desplazamiento imaginario por sus rosas (ANTÓN ARRUFAT). La belleza de su especulación crea nuevos sentidos en el lector. Así el poeta sorprende, no por la majestuosidad de la palabra, sino por lo profundamente encarnada [...]. La gran sabiduría de este poeta está en la consagración de la imagen que perturba su mente lúcida, y la lleva a una especie de autovaloración, donde lo bueno y lo malo se alternan. (LINA DE FERIA)
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/.
