{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-cuban-literature-hardback-9781009168342","title":"The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature (Hardback) 9781009168342","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of Cuban Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVicky Unruh (Edited by), Jacqueline Loss (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009168342, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e816 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 4.1 cm, 1.41 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExtending 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: unfinished histories\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Literature in the Early Colony: 1. Silvestre de Balboa's Espejo de paciencia and the unfinished foundational story of Cuban literature\u003cbr\u003e 2. José Martín Félix de Arrate's enlightenment discourse of Cuban exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Cuban Literature's Long Nineteenth Century: 3. Alexander von Humboldt and the cultural invention of Cuba among its nineteenth-century intellectual elite\u003cbr\u003e 4. Philosophy and pedagogy in Varela, Luz y Caballero, and Varona\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mercedes Merlin and the rhetoric of life writing, exile, and race\u003cbr\u003e 6. The lyric vernacular of Cuban romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda as literary precursor and transatlantic intellectual\u003cbr\u003e 8. Racialized futures: Slavery, miscegenation, and speculative literature\u003cbr\u003e 9. Journalism and nineteenth-century literary culture\u003cbr\u003e 10. José Martí as hemispheric visionary\u003cbr\u003e 11. Julian del Casal and the other faces of Cuban Modernismo\u003cbr\u003e 12. Performance worlds of nineteenth-century Cuban theatre\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic: 13. The literary intellectuals of the early Cuban republic\u003cbr\u003e 14. The invention of the Black Cuban in the early twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e 15. The fluid expressive communities of Cuba's interwar avant-gardes\u003cbr\u003e 16. Lydia Cabrera and Afro-Caribbean imaginaries\u003cbr\u003e 17. The fictions of new urban subjects\u003cbr\u003e 18. The aesthetics of Dulce María Loynaz\u003cbr\u003e 19. José Lezama Lima and the orbits of Orígenes\u003cbr\u003e 20. Alejo Carpentier and Cuba's literary twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e 21. The weighted literary islands of Virgilio Piñera\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Revolution's Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents: 22. Beginnings: testimonios, experimentalism, and their legacies\u003cbr\u003e 23. Imagining Cuba's new revolutionary communities through film (1959–1989)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Shaping new cultural literacies\u003cbr\u003e 25. The social life of music in Cuban literary culture\u003cbr\u003e 26. Casa de las Américas and revolutionary configurations of Latinoamericanismo\u003cbr\u003e 27. The travels of fiction in the Cuban diaspora\u003cbr\u003e 28. Cuba's poetic imaginary (1959–1989)\u003cbr\u003e 29. The artistic worlds of Guillermo Cabrera Infante\u003cbr\u003e 30. The diasporic odysseys of Reinaldo Arenas and his writing\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium: 31. Alternative cultural projects and their histories\u003cbr\u003e 32. Ediciones Vigía and the cultural legacies of Matanzas\u003cbr\u003e 33. The fiction of Cuba's special period\u003cbr\u003e 34. Critique and decentralization in Cuban film after 1989\u003cbr\u003e 35. The temporality of twentieth and twenty-first century Cuban theatre\u003cbr\u003e 36. The long reach of Haiti in Cuban literature\u003cbr\u003e 37. Cuban afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan revolutions\u003cbr\u003e 38. Anti-exceptionalism in detective fiction, speculative fiction, and graphic novels\u003cbr\u003e 39. Cuban women's writing at the millennium's turn\u003cbr\u003e 40. Queering the revolution and its diasporas\u003cbr\u003e 41. The performance art of global Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 42. Twenty-first-century Cuban film and diaspora\u003cbr\u003e 43. Cuba's poetic imaginary (1989–2020)\u003cbr\u003e 44. Prose narratives from Cuban America\u003cbr\u003e 45. Cuban theatre of the diaspora in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: 46. 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