Aviva Chomsky / Barry Carr / Pamela Smorkaloff

The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Herausgeber: Chomsky, Aviva; Carr, Barry; Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""The Cuba Reader" offers a splendid overview of the Cuban experience, past and present, through a dazzling array of points of view. The voices of participants and observers and perspectives on the extraordinary and the commonplace--with imagery conveyed by way of photography and poetry, through the lyric of music and the nuance of the novel--make for a compelling collection of material. The very fullness of its vision makes "The Cuba Reader" an indispensable book for courses--of every academic discipline--on Cuba."--Louis A. Perez, Jr., author of "On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture"

Produktdetails

• Latin America Readers
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 723
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331971
• ISBN-10: 0822331977
• Artikelnr.: 13662833

Autorenporträt

Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
I. Indigenous Society and Conquest
Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba / Christopher Columbus 9
The Devastation of the Indies / Bartolome de Las Casas 12
Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance / Various Spanish Officials 15
A World Destroyed / Juan Perez de la Riva 20
"Transculturation" and Cuba / Fernando Ortiz 26
Survival Stories / Jose Barreiro 28
II. Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism
A Physician's Notes on Cuba / John G. F. Wurdemann 39
The Death of the Forest / Manuel Moreno Fraginals 44
Autobiography of a Slave / Juan Francisco Manzano 49
Biography of a Runaway Slave / Miguel Barnet 58
Fleeing Slavery / Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael Garcia,
and Rafael Duharte 65
Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves / Rafael Duharte 69
Rumba / Yvonne Daniel 74
The Trade in Chinese Laborers / Richard Dana 79
Life on a Coffee Plantation / John G. F. Wurdemann 83
Cuba's First Railroad / David Turnbull 88
The Color Line / Jose Antonio Saco 91
Abolition! / Father Felix Varela 94
Cecilia Valdes / Cirilo Villaverde 97
Sab / Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga 103
An Afro-Cuban Poet / Placido 110
III. The Struggle for Independence
Freedom and Slavery / Carlos Manuel de Cespedes 115
Memories of a Cuban Girl / Renee Mendez Capote 118
Jose Marti's "Our America" / Jose Marti 122
Guantanamera / Jose Marti 128
The Explosion of the Maine / New York Journal 130
U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba / John J. Johnson 135
The Devastation of Counterinsurgency / Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session
139
IV. Neocolonialism
The Platt Amendment / President Theodore Roosevelt 147
Imperialism and Sanitation / Nancy Stepan 150
A Child of the Platt Amendment / Renee Mendez Capote 154
Spain in Cuba / Manuel Moreno Fraginals 157
The Independent Party of Color / El Partido Independiente de Color 163
A Survivor / Isidoro Santos Carrera 167
Rachel's Song / Miguel Barnet 171
Honest Women / Miguel de Carrion 180
Generals and Doctors / Carlos Loveira 186
A Crucial Decade / Lolo de la Torriente 189
Afrocubanismo and Son / Robin Moore 192
Drums in My Eyes / Nicolas Guillen 201
Abakua / Rafael Lopez Valdes 212
The First Wave of Cuban Feminism / Ofelia Dominguez Navarro 219
Life at the Mill / Ursinio Rojas 226
Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry / Levi Marrero 234
The Cuban Counterpoint / Fernando Ortiz 239
The Invasion of the Tourists / Rosalie Schwartz 244
Waiting Tables in Havana / Cipriano Chinea Palero and Lynn Geldof 253
The Brothel of the Caribbean / Tomas Fernandez Robaina 257
A Prostitute Remembers / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon
260
Sugarcane / Nicolas Guillen 264
Where is Cuba Headed? / Julio Antonio Mella 265
The Chase / Alejo Carpentier 270
The Fall of Machado / R. Hart Phillips 274
Sugar Mills and Soviets / Salvador Rionda 281
The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution / Sumner Welles and Cordell
Hull 283
The Political Gangster / Samuel Farber 287
The United Fruit Company in Cuba / Oscar Zanetti 290
Cuba's Largest Inheritance / Bohemia 296
The Last Call / Eduardo A. Chibas 298
For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July / Carlos Puebla 300
Three Comandantes Talk It Over / Carlos Franqui 302
History Will Absolve Me / Fidel Castro 306
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War / Che Guevara 315
The United States Rules Cuba, 1952-1958 / Morris Morley 321
The Cuban Story in the New York Times / Herbert L. Matthews 326
V. Building a New Society
And Then Fidel Arrived / Carlos Puebla 337
Tornado / Silvio Rodriguez 340
Castro Announces the Revolution / Fidel Castro 341
How the Poor Got More / Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott
344
Fish a la Grande Jardiniere / Humberto Arenal 354
Women in the Swamps / Margaret Randall 363
Man and Socialism / Ernesto "Che" Guevara 370
In the Fist of the Revolution / Jose Yglesias 375
The Agrarian Revolution / Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott
378
1961: The Year of Education / Richard R. Fagen 386
The Literacy Campaign / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon 389
The "Rehabilitation" of Prostitutes / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan
M. Rigdon 395
The Family Code / Margaret Randall 399
Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence / Reinaldo Arenas 406
The Original Sin / Pablo Milanes 412
Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing / Nancy Morejon 414
Silence on Black Cuba / Carlos Moore 419
Black Man in Red Cuba / John Clytus 424
Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque / Christian Parenti 427
From Utopianism to Institutionalization / Juan Antonio Blanco and Medea
Benjamin 433
Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy / Carlos Puebla 443
VI. Culture and Revolution
Caliban / Roberto Fernandez Retamar 451
For an Imperfect Cinema / Julio Garcia Espinosa 458
Dance and Social Change / Yvonne Daniel 466
Revolutionary Sport / Paula Pettavino and Geralyn Pye 475
Mea Cuba / Guillermo Cabrera Infante 481
In Hard Times / Heberto Padilla 488
The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint / Olga Portuondo Zuniga
490
A Conversation on Santeria and Palo Monte / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and
Susan M. Rigdon 498
The Catholic Church and the Revolution / Ernesto Cardenal 505
Havana's Jewish Community / Tom Miller 509
VII. The Cuban Revolution and the World
The Venceremos Brigades / Sandra Levinson 517
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left / Van Gosse 526
The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution / Foreign Relations of the
United States 530
Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution / Fidel Castro 536
Operation Mongoose / Edward Lansdale 540
Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island / President John F. Kennedy
544
Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis / Edmundo Desnoes
547
The Assassination Plots / Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with Respect to Intelligence Activities 552
Cuban Refugee Children / Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh 557
From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants / Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto 561
Wrong Channel / Roberto Fernandez 566
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? / Achy Obejas
568
City on the Edge / Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick 581
Singing for Nicaragua / Silvio Rodriguez 588
Cuban Medical Diplomacy / Julie Feinsilver 590
VIII. The "Periodo Especial" and the Future of the Revolution
Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period / Silvio Rodríguez 599
From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary / Susan Eckstein 607
The Revolution Turns Forty / Saul Landau 623
Colonizing the Cuban Body / G. Derrick Hodge  628
Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba / Pope John Paul II 635
Emigration in the Special Period / Steve Fainaru and Ray Sánchez 637
The Old Man and the Boy / John Lee Anderson 644
Civil Society / Haroldo Dilla 650
Forty Years Later / Senel Paz 660
A Dissident Speaks Out / Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz 664
One More Assassination Plot / Juan Tamayo 666
An Errand in Havana / Miguel Barnet 671
No Turning Back for Johnny / David Mitrani 678
Suggestions for Further Reading 691
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 701
Index 713