...A. Frederick Mignone Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SOUTH ATLANTIC WHITHER CUBA? A. Frederick Mignone HE ENGLISH experiment of socialism in action has attracted I more attention in this country than the marked socialistic changes that have been going on for some time in Cuba...

...Dara E. Goldman Recent events have led critics to speculate about whether “everything changed” in the wake of 9/11. Drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay examines current rhetoric and practices in both the United States and Cuba. The U.S.-Cuban relationship, especially as manifested...

...Tommaso Pirone Sixty years after Fidel Castro’s revolution overthrew the US’s influence in Cuba, Airbnb has penetrated Havana’s accommodation market, despite strong limitations imposed by the US government. This article analyzes the methods employed by Airbnb to enter the unique Cuban tourist...

...José Esteban Muñoz 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 José Esteban Muñoz The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz’s Cubanía Old Cubans say that if you walk to the very end...

...Humberto Manduley López; Manuel Michalowski Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Humberto Manduley Lopez Rock in Cuba: History of a Wayward Son Thirty years is long enough; sometimes it s too long. Nevertheless, three decades haven t been enough to give homegrown rock safe-conduct...

...Arturo Arango; Nancy Westrate Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Arturo Arango To Write in Cuba, Today ^Juring the mid-1980s, the word changes seemed to sum up all the expectations and achievements of Cuban life. These changes had been happening since the process of rectifica­...

...Robert F. Durden The Death of Slavery: The United States, 1837-65 . By Smith Elbert B. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1967 . Pp. viii , 225 . $5.00 . Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Cuba and Virginia . By Klein Herbert S. . Chicago...

...Roberto Fernández Retamar; Nancy Westrate Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Roberto Fernandez Retamar Cuba Defended: Countering Another Black Legend To the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, includ­ ing those of the so-called classical period, were far from perfect; the Egyptians...

... be sure that the Cuban Socialist State would still be intact today. The fact that the Cuban Revolution did not crumble along with the Berlin Wall or fold like the flag flying over the Kremlin given that those represented the geo­ political borders between which 80 percent of Cuba s foreign trade...

... of Columbus) to the most recent books about Cuba, a continual series of images about the country has been pro­ jected toward the world. Today, that world, where history transpires in real time, returns these images to us with instantaneous force. Novels that dream in Cuban and dance with The Mambo Kings, best...

... kilometers to take on the local club in what the national mythology would later commemorate as the first baseball game be­ tween organized teams ever played in Cuba. In­ deed, for the majority of Cubans today, the game played that Sunday afternoon on a field known as Palmar del Junco is the first baseball...

...William Noland 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 William Noland Cuban Stories My interest in creating images of Cuba grew out of a moment...

.... There Is an Alternative: Cuba On September 5, 2004, Tropical Storm Ivan reached hurricane strength in the Atlantic Ocean. Continuing west toward the Caribbean, it battered a string of islands as it gathered strength into a massive category 5 storm, 500 kilometers in diameter and with sustained winds recorded...

... countries as well. Most surprising, however, was the film s monumental success in Socialist Cuba, where it won not only the country s Critics and People s Choice Awards but also the Catholic Church s OCIC (Organization Catolica International de Cine) Award for exemplary films. (Perhaps the Catholic Church...

... from mid-November, 1896, until the following March in the vain hope of finding passage to Cuba. The sole authority for the quotation is Crane s first biographer, Thomas Beer, who, with very little other evidence, concluded that Jacksonville bored Crane, and that he was alone who liked to have people...

... for multilateral consultation on the Cuban problem and urged the necessity for harmony on the eve of the Seventh Conference of the American States at Montevideo. The Mexican Charge d Affaires in Washington, Luis Padilla Nervo, commenting upon American policy toward Cuba, said, It is almost miraculous how...

... of musicians from postcolonial Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Panama to New York City. (Roberts chronicles these musicians’ work; Puerto Rican musi- cians are closely studied in Ruth Glasser, Music Is My Flag...

... returned to Cuba in 1895 to help lead the war of independence, he brought with him the lessons learned in Florida's tobacco fields, which shaped a revolution that, in many ways, was “far more socially inclusive . . . than were previous Cuban uprisings” (Farber 2006 : 36). Armando Hart ( 2004 : 309)—Cuba's...

... that these birds (zunzunes, they are called in Cuba) possess a sense of responsibility, that they are on a mis­ sion they must complete. They feed and nurture their own; they reproduce and die with regularity, with precision, performing a task as ineluctable and consuming as that of an evangelist. As we grow older...

... Herrnstein Smith, Jane Tompkins managing editor: Candice Ward editorial assistants: Priscilla Lane and Alex Martin Volume 96 Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press Durham, North Carolina Contents of Volume 96 Arango, Arturo, To Write in Cuba, Today 117 Baer, Ulrich, Contemporary Holocaust Images...