The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: The Cuba Reader : History, Culture, Politics

Beteiligte: Chomsky, Aviva [HerausgeberIn]; Prieto, Alfredo [HerausgeberIn]; Carr, Barry [HerausgeberIn]; Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria [HerausgeberIn]

Erschienen: Durham: Duke University Press, [2019]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (744 p); 105 illustrations

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781478004561

ISBN: 9781478004561

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RVK-Notation: MI 73000 : Allgemeines

Schlagwörter: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. 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

The Cuba Reader -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus “Discovers” Cuba -- The Devastation of the Indies -- Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance -- 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 -- U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba -- The Devastation of Counterinsurgency -- IV Neocolonialism -- Introduction -- President Roosevelt Proclaims the Platt Amendment -- Imperialism and Sanitation -- A Child of the Platt Amendment -- Spain in Cuba -- The Independent Party of Color -- A Survivor -- Rachel’s Song -- Honest Women -- 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 -- 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 -- The Last Call -- 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 -- Troubadours of the Revolution -- Castro Announces the Revolution -- How the Poor Got More -- Fish à la Grande Jardinière -- Women in the Swamps -- Socialism and Man -- In the Fist of the Revolution -- The Agrarian Revolution -- 1961: The Year of Education -- The Literacy Campaign -- The Family Code -- The Original Sin -- Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing -- Silence on Black Cuba -- Black Man in Red Cuba -- Postmodern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque -- From Utopianism to Institutionalization -- VI Culture and Revolution -- Caliban -- For an Imperfect Cinema -- Dance and Social Change -- Revolutionary Sport -- 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 -- VII The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades -- The Cuban Revolution and the New Left -- The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution -- 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 -- Cuban Refugee Children -- From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants -- Wrong Channel -- City on the Edge -- Singing for Nicaragua -- Cuban Medical Diplomacy -- VIII The Período Especial -- Introduction -- Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period -- Zippy Goes to Cuba -- “Special Period in Peacetime”: Economic and Labor Reforms -- The Revolution Turns Forty -- Colonizing the Cuban Body -- Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba -- Elián González and the “Real Cuba” of Miami -- Civil Society -- Forty Years Later -- IX Cuba after Fidel: Continuities and Transitions -- Introduction -- Economy and Society -- Raúl’s Reforms -- Emigration in the Twenty-First Century -- Tourism and the Many Faces of Havana’s Chinatown -- The Antiracist Debate in Today’s Cuba -- Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism between Two Fires -- Race and Cuban Hip-Hop -- The “Pavonato” -- Short Stories -- His Cigar -- Gender, Sexuality, and AIDS -- A Theory of Reguetón -- 12/17 and U.S.-Cuban Relations -- Spies, Counterspies, and Dissidents -- Francis, Obama, and Raúl -- Obama and Us -- “Visit Cuba before It Changes!” -- Perspectives on Cuba ’s New Realities -- New Cuban Voices -- “El Paquete”: Internet in Cuba -- A New Film Law -- So as Not to Throw Out the Sofa (Editorial Song) -- Spyglass -- Commentaries on Fidel Castro’s Death -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources -- Index

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