... as geographically continuous with, and affectively connected to, Cuba. This article reads the poetry of Mohammed el Gharani and Ibrahim al-Rubaish, former detainees included in Marc Falkoff’s collection Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak , and of José Ramón Sánchez, longtime resident of the Cuban city...

... literature by women in Cuba and Argentina leads these two writers to appropriate or invent their own during periods of increasing liberalization in their respective countries. At first glance, Portela and Moreno’s joyful gestures of what this essay conceptualizes as “creative plagiarism” appear to signal...

...Eric Morales-Franceschini The cruelest of ironies is that Cubans evidenced strikingly similar tendencies. They, too, villainized their enemy, with most accounts fixated on Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish General assigned to Cuba to wage war “without scruples.” Nearly all accounts animalized Weyler...

... of Minnesota P, 2001 . Castro, Fidel. “Palabras a los Intelectuales.” Havana, 1961. 30 Jan. 2009 < http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1961/19610630 .> Chomsky, Aviva, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds. The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics . Durham: Duke UP, 2003...

... of Disappointment is a unique comparative analysis of a body of works produced in the post–Cold War period. The book revisits the fraught intervention of Cuba in Angola by showing how post-Soviet cultural production demystifies the official redemptive narrative of Cuban heroism and how the fictional representation...

... ): 75 -81. Davis, Mike. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City . London: Verso, 2000 . De la Campa, Román. Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation . London: Verso, 2000 . ____. “Norteamérica y sus mundos Latinos: Ontologías, Globalización, Diásporas.” Revista...

... are produced largely in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s...

... are produced largely in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s...

... “They say that the most fervent desire of any ghost is to recover at least the appearance of its corporeality . . .” —Julio Cortázar, “Some Aspects of the Short Story” MONG THE MANY EVENTS that took place in Cuba following...

... of creole languages — Jamaican, for example —and have a grounding in the classical African languages deployed in liturgical contexts in Cuba and Trinidad, among other countries. Of equal importance when affi rming the centrality of Caribbean literatures to any comparative undertaking is the sheer...

...” was declared. Thus, while Arenas’s novel received the honor of “Primera Mención,” in this political game EMA “won” without win- ning outright. Consequently, it was denied the possibility of publication in Cuba. The manuscript was later smuggled off the island by friends (the Camachos), who then had...

... of American Communism: The Depression Decade . New York : Basic Books , 1984 . Print . Kutzinski Vera . “Cuba Libre: Langston Hughes y Nicolás Guillén” . Cuba: Un siglo de literartura (1902–2002) . Ed. Birkenmaier Anke Echevarría Roberto González . Madrid : Editorial Colibrí , 2004...

... impérios: transformações cartográficas do Atlântico sul.” Anais do Museu Paulista 17 . 2 ( 2009 ): 15 – 37 . Print . Morton Timothy . Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2007 . Print . Price Rachel . Planet/Cuba: Art...

... of a vindictive US oppression over decades . . . are a permanent indication of what could have been” (215). It encourages him to defy logic, as when he speaks of “the still continuing effort by the United States to destroy the Cuban Revolution and to deny the freedom that Cuba promises to a world in economic...

...,” they regularly saw their own work taken up and refashioned by radical ethnic minority writers. For example, Vladimir Mayakovsky was fascinated by the racial and ethnic diversity he encountered on his 1925 trip to Cuba, Mexico, and the United States, and wrote several poems about it in his signature...

....” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 11 . 2 ( 2002 ): 173 -93. Ferrer, Ana. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution 1868-1898 . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1999 . Ferris, David. “Indiscipline.” Saussy 78 -99. Foster, Lynn V. A Brief History of Mexico . Rev. ed. New...

... was reworked by the Cuban intellectual Roberto Fernández Reta- mar in a 1971 essay that appropriated the image of Caliban for Latin American colonies brutalized by empire, and more particularly for Cuba in relation to the U.S. In contrast, Diego Rivera’s 1940 “fusion” depicts the synergy between...

..., and in the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba. Far from documenting historical examples of migration or circulation, the plausible yet fictional intimacies of “O homem que sabia javanês” are a conceptual reorientation away from Eurocentric cartographies, facilitating a double gaze toward the Pacific...

... contemporary questionings of Latin America’s role in global capitalism, advanced by both scholarly work (most notably dependency theory) and political activism, given momentum on a continental scale by the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It was, incidentally, in revolutionary Cuba, during an international conference...

...!' Presenza italiana in Messico.” Otto/Novecento 24 . 1 ( 2000 ): 125 -71. Lundkvist, Artur. “Palinuro de México.” Toledo 70 -73. Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria. Posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas . Trans. Gregory Rabasa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997 . Mansour, Mónica. Los mundos...