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... of the government's commitment not only to build factories in this region but also to truly revolutionize the Baracoa community. 47 In Retornar a Baracoa , the images of the woman curling her hair are followed by a photograph of a young black man leaning on his arm and looking back toward the camera...

... history, revalued African culture and black identity, and promoted Caribbean black consciousness in Cuba despite state attempts at censorship. For Morejón that meant offering a definition of mestizaje that goes through and coexists with black consciousness. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 1959 Revolution...

... trouble the primary thesis of the essay, which positions the West Indies, from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution of 1959, as oriented toward anti-imperial sovereignty. James’s essay refers to the two-decades-long US occupation of Haiti precisely by down-playing its assault on Haiti’s...

... in the contemporary narrative of history; in his view, a conciliatory vision of the nation had been reappropriated in the first years of the 1959 Revolution. Dedicated “to Fidel and to the intellectuals,” the book proposes to unveil the silences and forgetfulness and signal the absence of other bodies...

... camino de Harlem” [“The Harlem Way”]), into contact with what one might call the vicissitudes of Cuban race, nation, and culture from the wars of national independence in the mid-nineteenth century to the period after the Revolution of 1959. Morejón reads Guillén closely and on the surface; she theorizes...

...; Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). 32 See, for example, María del Pilar Díaz Castañón, Ideología y revolución: Cuba, 1959–1962 (Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2001); Lillian Guerra, Visions...

... these and other authors of writing experimental and escapist literature, and, therefore, their decisions produced a division between those who continued to revolutionize language and structure and those who penned a more politically motivated literature. 2 The unity of writers that defined one...

...Martin Munro The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article...

... See Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959–1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 274. 30 Nancy Morejón, “Mujer negra,” Casa de las Américas , no. 88 (January–February 1975): 119–20. 31 Nancy Morejón, “Mujer negra...

..., uploaded 27 August 2020; www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjPL5SO-tk (accessed 14 June 2023). For more on CDRs, see Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959–1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). 20 While there were certainly shortages...

... (in the sense, perhaps, suggested by José Martí's contrast in the epigraph). 1 In my admittedly anglophone imagination, shaped no doubt by a very partial vision of the Cuban Revolution, Casa de las Américas embodies not so much an astonishing calendar of events and range of publications (remarkable...

... to North American control, it was not until after the Cuban Revolution that a national central bank was formed, with Che Guevera appointed its director in 1959. 45 The years leading to the organization of the Banco Nacional de Cuba's formation are considered by Cuban economic historian Enrique Collazo...

... emigration since the 1959 revolution means that the vast majority of Cubans reside in Cuba, while the 2010 census counts more Puerto Ricans living outside of Puerto Rico than in. 8 A recent collaborative film project documents the “ cimarrón spirit” of Afro-Dominican cultural practices established...

... of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013), considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. She is managing editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform and manages the site The Caribbean Commons . A aron K...

... with the revolutionary triumph in 1959, and her affiliation to the editorial group El Puente (1961–65). Intersectionality allows an understanding of how Morejón’s self-identification and self-representation as a black revolutionary female writer condition her elaboration of counternarratives that thwart the Eurocentric...

... in 1959, Césaire begins his argument by positing that in the moment of decolonization in which the congress occurs, the legacy of colonialism, shared by particular countries and by the world more broadly, confers certain responsibilities on black writers and artists from both Africa and the Caribbean...

... Identity: Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial Prerogative,” in The Location of Culture, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2004), 61; Frantz Fanon, L’an cinq de la révolution algérienne (Paris: Maspero, 1959). 10 This is ironic, of course, because Martinique, which became an overseas...

... imaginary, much as the Haitian Revolution was for the nineteenth. The occupation is usually considered only in relation to its impacts in Haiti and the United States, but Haiti’s symbolic significance meant that its occupation shaped the perspectives of Caribbean people throughout the region. Major thinkers...

... Institute for the Study of Man, Plantation Systems of the New World: Papers and Discussion Summaries (Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1959), iii–vi. 5 See, for example, Charles Wagley, “Plantation America: A Culture Sphere,” in Vera Rubin, ed., Caribbean Studies: A Symposium (Kingston...

... Afro-descended landowner father from Hispaniola and a local White Puerto Rican mother, at the age of ten he was sent to France, where he studied medicine and embraced the ideals of the French Revolution of 1848. Upon his return to Puerto Rico in 1856, he became active in abolitionist circles, for which...