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

...Roberto González Echevarría; Gaspar Gonzalez Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Literature, Dance, and Baseball in the Last Cuban Fin de Sidcle 27 December 1874, the Habana Base Ball Club made its way by train to Matanzas a trip of a little over 100...

...Margarita Mateo Palmer; Sophia McClennen Expósito; Candice Ward Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Margarita Mateo Palmer Cuban Youth and Postmodernism Run into the street with the impossible name (Ultima Thule), erase it with your bones, and write with your blood: here and now...

...Francisco López Sacha; Nancy Westrate; Candice Ward Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Francisco Lopez Sacha Current Tendencies in the Cuban Short Story I believe that it was Vico who first associated the pendulum with human problems the corsi and ricorsi of history but it was Poe...

...Rosa Ileana Boudet; Nancy Westrate Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Rosa lleana Boudet New Playwrights, New Challenges: Current Cuban Theater ^^uring the 1950s, playwrights like Virgilio Pinera and Carlos Felipe dominated the Cuban stage. Their most important successors...

...Emilio Bejel Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Emilio Bejel Strawberry and Chocolate: Coming Out of the Cuban Closet? The Cuban film Fresa y chocolate/Strawberry and Chocolate, with screenplay by Senel Paz and di­ rected by Tomas Gutierrez Aiea and Juan Carlos Tabfo, generated...

...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...

...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...

...Rafael Hernández; Sophia McClennen Expósito; Alex Martin; Candice Ward Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Rafael Hernandez The Paradoxes of Cubanology Since its origin Cuban culture has developed through an intense exchange with the exterior. From the Diario de Colon (Diary...

...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...

..., Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice , trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977 . Brock, Lisa. “Introduction: Between Race and Empire.”In Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution , ed. Lisa Brock and Digna Castañeda Fuertes...

... since it became established as a republic in 1902, after it was finally suc­ cessful, in 1898, with the help of the United States, in winning inde­ pendence from Spain. Under Spanish domination for centuries and unaccustomed to selfrule, the Cubans have encountered considerable difficulty in making...

... 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...

...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...

... popular Cuban playwright and the one most in touch with our difficult problematic. A bold iconoclast now in his forties, Alberto Pedro has retained the rogu­ ish look of his years as an actor with the Cubana de Acero and Teatro Politico Bertolt Brecht com­ panies and in soap operas, as well as the keen­...

... Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Notes on Contributors arturo arango is editor-in-chief of La Gaceta de Cuba, published by the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists. His award-winning short stories have been collected in Salir al mundo (1981), La vida es una semana (1990), and La...

... of the Cuban plastic arts in the 1990s. Conceptualism unites this new generation of artists whose work represents a continuity with the visual arts of the 1980s. A reflexive tendency is dominant now, as it was then, with artists using irony to the point of parody and frequently alluding to political and social...

..., we read the numerous spatial and temporal bridges between the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Burkinabé revolution. Rather than discrete historical events, or struggles in loose transcontinental conversation with one another, we instead read the archive as filled with artifacts...

... until 1 January 1959, over T5° years after Haitian independence. Infuriated by the Cubans (as Napoleon had been by the Haitians), the U.S. government stopped buying our sugar in i960 sugar that, under an agreement, the island Cuba Defended 103 had produced for the United States thereby forcing Cuba...

...: The Landscape of Loss and the Limits of the Photograph 741 Baugh, Edward, The Poet's Fiction of Self: The Schooner Flight" 311 Bejel, Emilio, Strawberry and Chocolate: Coming Out of the Cuban Closet? 65 Bogue, Ronald, Art and Territory 465 Boudet, Rosa Ileana, New Playwrights, New Challenges: Current Cuban...