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, Ofelia Domínguez
[Contributor];
, Plácido
[Contributor];
Achy, Obejas
[Contributor];
Alejandro, Portes
[Contributor];
Alejo, Carpentier
[Contributor];
Alex, Stepick
[Contributor];
Bartolomé, de Las Casas
[Contributor];
Bryan O., Walsh
[Contributor];
Carlos Manuel, de Céspedes
[Contributor];
Carlos, Franqui
[Contributor];
Carlos, Loveira
[Contributor];
Carlos, Moore
[Contributor];
Carlos, Puebla
[Contributor];
Carr, Barry
[Editor];
Che, Guevara
[Contributor];
Chomsky, Aviva
[Editor];
Christian, Parenti
[Contributor];
Christopher, Columbus
[Contributor];
Cipriano Chinea, Palero
[Contributor];
Cirilo, Villaverde
[Contributor];
Cordell, Hull
[Contributor];
David, Mitrani
[Contributor];
David, Turnbull
[Contributor];
Edmundo, Desnoes
[Contributor];
[...]
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: The Cuba Reader : History, Culture, Politics
- Contributor: , Ofelia Domínguez [MitwirkendeR]; , Plácido [MitwirkendeR]; Achy, Obejas [MitwirkendeR]; Alejandro, Portes [MitwirkendeR]; Alejo, Carpentier [MitwirkendeR]; Alex, Stepick [MitwirkendeR]; Bartolomé, de Las Casas [MitwirkendeR]; Bryan O., Walsh [MitwirkendeR]; Carlos Manuel, de Céspedes [MitwirkendeR]; Carlos, Franqui [MitwirkendeR]; Carlos, Loveira [MitwirkendeR]; Carlos, Moore [MitwirkendeR]; Carlos, Puebla [MitwirkendeR]; Carr, Barry [HerausgeberIn]; Che, Guevara [MitwirkendeR]; Chomsky, Aviva [HerausgeberIn]; Christian, Parenti [MitwirkendeR]; Christopher, Columbus [MitwirkendeR]; Cipriano Chinea, Palero [MitwirkendeR]; Cirilo, Villaverde [MitwirkendeR]; Cordell, Hull [MitwirkendeR]; David, Mitrani [MitwirkendeR]; David, Turnbull [MitwirkendeR]; Edmundo, Desnoes [MitwirkendeR]; Eduardo A., Chibás [MitwirkendeR]; Edward, Lansdale [MitwirkendeR]; Elizardo Sánchez, Santacruz [MitwirkendeR]; Ernesto ‘‘Che’’, Guevara [MitwirkendeR]; Ernesto, Cardenal [MitwirkendeR]; Father Félix, Varela [MitwirkendeR]; Fernando, Ortiz [MitwirkendeR]; Fidel, Castro [MitwirkendeR]; Félix Roberto, Masud-Piloto [MitwirkendeR]; G. Derrick, Hodge [MitwirkendeR]; Geralyn, Pye [MitwirkendeR]; Gertrudis Gómez, de Avellaneda y Arteaga [MitwirkendeR]; Guillermo Cabrera, Infante [MitwirkendeR]; Haroldo, Dilla [MitwirkendeR]; Heberto, Padilla [MitwirkendeR]; Herbert L., Matthews [MitwirkendeR]; Humberto, Arenal [MitwirkendeR]; Isidoro Santos, Carrera [MitwirkendeR]; John F., Kennedy [MitwirkendeR]; John G. F., Wurdemann [MitwirkendeR]; John J., Johnson [MitwirkendeR]; John Lee, Anderson [MitwirkendeR]; John, Clytus [MitwirkendeR]; John, Paul ii [MitwirkendeR]; Joseph, Collins [MitwirkendeR]; José Antonio, Saco [MitwirkendeR]; José, Barreiro [MitwirkendeR]; José, Martí [MitwirkendeR]; José, Yglesias [MitwirkendeR]; Juan Antonio, Blanco [MitwirkendeR]; Juan Francisco, Manzano [MitwirkendeR]; Juan Pérez, de la Riva [MitwirkendeR]; Juan, Tamayo [MitwirkendeR]; Julie, Feinsilver [MitwirkendeR]; Julio Antonio, Mella [MitwirkendeR]; Julio García, Espinosa [MitwirkendeR]; Kirk, Robin [HerausgeberIn]; Leví, Marrero [MitwirkendeR]; Loló, de la Torriente [MitwirkendeR]; Lynn, Geldof [MitwirkendeR]; Manuel Moreno, Fraginals [MitwirkendeR]; Margaret, Randall [MitwirkendeR]; Medea, Benjamin [MitwirkendeR]; Michael, Scott [MitwirkendeR]; Miguel, Barnet [MitwirkendeR]; Miguel, de Carrión [MitwirkendeR]; Morris, Morley [MitwirkendeR]; Nancy, Morejón [MitwirkendeR]; Nancy, Stepan [MitwirkendeR]; Nicolás, Guillén [MitwirkendeR]; Olga, Portuondo Zúñiga [MitwirkendeR]; Oscar, Lewis [MitwirkendeR]; Oscar, Zanetti [MitwirkendeR]; Pablo, Milanés [MitwirkendeR]; Paula, Pettavino [MitwirkendeR]; Pedro, Deschamps Chapeaux [MitwirkendeR]; R. Hart, Phillips [MitwirkendeR]; Rafael López, Valdés [MitwirkendeR]; Rafael, Duharte [MitwirkendeR]; Rafael, García [MitwirkendeR]; Ray, Sánchez [MitwirkendeR]; Reinaldo, Arenas [MitwirkendeR]; Renée Méndez, Capote [MitwirkendeR]; Richard R., Fagen [MitwirkendeR]; Richard, Dana [MitwirkendeR]; Roberto Fernández, Retamar [MitwirkendeR]; Roberto, Fernández [MitwirkendeR]; Robin, Moore [MitwirkendeR]; Rosalie, Schwartz [MitwirkendeR]; Ruth M., Lewis [MitwirkendeR]; Salvador, Rionda [MitwirkendeR]; Samuel, Farber [MitwirkendeR]; Sandra, Levinson [MitwirkendeR]; Saul, Landau [MitwirkendeR]; Senel, Paz [MitwirkendeR]; Silvio, Rodríguez [MitwirkendeR]; Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria [HerausgeberIn]; Starn, Orin [HerausgeberIn]; Steve, Fainaru [MitwirkendeR]; Sumner, Welles [MitwirkendeR]; Susan M., Rigdon [MitwirkendeR]; Susan, Eckstein [MitwirkendeR]; Theodore, Roosevelt [MitwirkendeR]; Tom, Miller [MitwirkendeR]; Tomás Fernández, Robaina [MitwirkendeR]; Ursinio, Rojas [MitwirkendeR]; Van, Gosse [MitwirkendeR]; Yvonne, Daniel [MitwirkendeR]
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imprint:
Durham: Duke University Press, [2004]
[Online-Ausgabe] - Published in: The Latin America Readers
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (736 p); 94 illustrations
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9780822384915
- ISBN: 9780822384915
- Identifier:
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RVK notation:
MI 73000 : Allgemeines
- Keywords: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
- Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
- Origination:
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Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus ‘‘Discovers’’ Cuba -- The Devastation of the Indies -- Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance. Various Spanish Officials -- A World Destroyed -- ‘‘Transculturation’’ and Cuba -- Survival Stories -- II Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism -- A Physician’s Notes on Cuba -- The Death of the Forest -- Autobiography of a Slave -- Biography of a Runaway Slave -- Fleeing Slavery -- Santiago de Cuba’s Fugitive Slaves -- Rumba -- The Trade in Chinese Laborers -- Life on a Coffee Plantation -- Cuba’s First Railroad -- The Color Line -- Abolition! -- Cecilia Valdés -- Sab -- An Afro-Cuban Poet -- III The Struggle for Independence -- Freedom and Slavery -- Memories of a Cuban Girl -- José Martí’s ‘‘Our America’’ -- Guantanamera -- The Explosion of the Maine. New York Journal -- U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba -- The Devastation of Counterinsurgency. Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session -- IV Neocolonialism -- The Platt Amendment -- Imperialism and Sanitation -- A Child of the Platt Amendment -- Spain in Cuba -- The Independent Party of Color. El Partido Independiente de Color -- A Survivor -- Rachel’s Song -- Honest Women -- Generals and Doctors -- A Crucial Decade -- Afrocubanismo and Son -- Drums in My Eyes -- Abakuá -- The First Wave of Cuban Feminism -- Life at the Mill -- Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry -- The Cuban Counterpoint -- The Invasion of the Tourists -- Waiting Tables in Havana -- The Brothel of the Caribbean -- A Prostitute Remembers -- Sugarcane -- Where Is Cuba Headed? -- The Chase -- The Fall of Machado -- Sugar Mills and Soviets -- The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution -- The Political Gangster -- The United Fruit Company in Cuba -- Cuba’s Largest Inheritance. Bohemia -- The Last Call -- For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July -- Three Comandantes Talk It Over -- History Will Absolve Me -- Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War -- The United States Rules Cuba, 1952–1958 -- The Cuban Story in the New York Times -- V Building a New Society -- And Then Fidel Arrived -- Tornado -- Castro Announces the Revolution -- How the Poor Got More -- Fish à la Grande Jardinière -- Women in the Swamps -- Man and Socialism -- In the Fist of the Revolution -- The Agrarian Revolution -- 1961: The Year of Education -- The Literacy Campaign -- The ‘‘Rehabilitation’’ of Prostitutes -- The Family Code -- Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence -- The Original Sin -- Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing -- Silence on Black Cuba -- Black Man in Red Cuba -- Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque -- From Utopianism to Institutionalization -- Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy -- VI Culture and Revolution -- Caliban -- For an Imperfect Cinema -- Dance and Social Change -- Revolutionary Sport -- Mea Cuba -- In Hard Times -- The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba’s Patron Saint -- A Conversation on Santería and Palo Monte -- The Catholic Church and the Revolution -- Havana’s Jewish Community -- VII The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades -- The Cuban Revolution and the New Left -- The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution. Foreign Relations of the United States -- Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution -- Operation Mongoose -- Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island -- Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis -- The Assassination Plots Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities -- Cuban Refugee Children -- From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants -- Wrong Channel -- We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? -- City on the Edge -- Singing for Nicaragua -- Cuban Medical Diplomacy -- VIII The ‘‘Período Especial’’ and the Future of the Revolution -- Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period -- From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary -- The Revolution Turns Forty -- Colonizing the Cuban Body -- Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba -- Emigration in the Special Period -- The Old Man and the Boy -- Civil Society -- Forty Years Later -- A Dissident Speaks Out -- One More Assassination Plot -- An Errand in Havana -- No Turning Back for Johnny -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index
Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms—either as the site of one of Latin America’s most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world’s last communist regime. The Cuba Reader multiplies perspectives on the nation many times over, presenting more than one hundred selections about Cuba’s history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present.The Cuba Reader combines songs, paintings, photographs, poems, short stories, speeches, cartoons, government reports and proclamations, and pieces by historians, journalists, and others. Most of these are by Cubans, and many appear for the first time in English. The writings and speeches of José Martí, Fernando Ortiz, Fidel Castro, Alejo Carpentier, Che Guevera, and Reinaldo Arenas appear alongside the testimonies of slaves, prostitutes, doctors, travelers, and activists. Some selections examine health, education, Catholicism, and santería; others celebrate Cuba’s vibrant dance, music, film, and literary cultures. The pieces are grouped into chronological sections. Each section and individual selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the editors.The volume presents a number of pieces about twentieth-century Cuba, including the events leading up to and following Castro’s January 1959 announcement of revolution. It provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America and the Caribbean, its alliance with the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, and its tumultuous relationship with the United States. The Cuba Reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. embargo.For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction - Access State: Restricted Access