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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unruh, Vicky, editor.

Loss, Jacqueline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban literature--History and criticism.

Cuban literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 785 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also French, Haitian Kreyòl, Angolan Portuguese, and English. Broad in its scope, this book encompasses such major figures as Gómez de Avellaneda, Heredia, Plácido, Manzano, Villaverde, Martí, Casal, Carpentier, L. Cabrera, Mañach, Loynaz, Piñera, Lezama Lima, and Cabrera Infante, as well as theatre and performance groups, film, post-revolutionary projects, post-1989 Special Period writers, and literature of Cuba's diasporas. It highlights four key features weaving through Cuban literary history: its engagement with international networks; its key role in cultural identity debates throughout Latin America; persistent debates about race, gender, and class; and the tropes of travel and movement-voluntary, exploratory, enslaved, migratory, or exilic.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Jun 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009573405

1009573403

9781009573412

1009573411

9781009168359

1009168355