Essays In Cuban Intellectual History

Author : R. Rojas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230611079
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Cuban Intellectual History written by R. Rojas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of José Martí, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Orígenes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.

Author : Yairen Jerez Columbié
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030730413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History written by Yairen Jerez Columbié and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely timely and compelling study of Cuba and Catalonia, Jerez Columbié's book casts this rich and underappreciated intellectual relationship in new light via the notion of the counterpoint. Through insightful readings that acknowledge her own positionality, the author builds a multifaceted argument that advances novel ways of understanding both identity formation and cultural community. This book is required reading for scholars of the Caribbean and modern Spain and Catalonia. -Robert Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood. Both the concept of transculturation and its instrumentalization to tame conflict within nationalist projects are problematic. By uncovering and examining the contradictions between the fluid character of identities in the Cuban context of the first half of the twentieth century and nationalist discourses, within both the Catalanist community of Havana and Cuban society, this book joins wider debates about identities. Yairen Jerez Columbié is a postdoctoral researcher at the MaREI Centre of the Environmental Research Institute, at University College Cork, where she explores the sociohistorical and cultural dimensions of environmental challenges and climate action. Her work focuses on marginalised knowledge, cultural exchanges and ecocritical approaches in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. .

Author : Yairen Jerez Columbié
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030730409
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History written by Yairen Jerez Columbié and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood. Both the concept of transculturation and its instrumentalization to tame conflict within nationalist projects are problematic. By uncovering and examining the contradictions between the fluid character of identities in the Cuban context of the first half of the twentieth century and nationalist discourses, within both the Catalanist community of Havana and Cuban society, this book joins wider debates about identities.

Author : Louis A. Pérez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813013299
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Cuban History written by Louis A. Pérez and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of immense utility to those who are, or plan to become, students and scholars of Cuban history and society. . . . Both an overview and a handbook combined into one accessible, well-written volume."--Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan Reflecting three decades of study of one of the most respected scholars of Cuba in the Unied States, these essays examine some of the central issues of historical research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuba. The first section sets in relief many of the principal themes of Cuban studies, including Protestant missionary activity, the U.S. interventions in 1898, Cuban emigration to the United States, and the development of the Cuban armed forces after 1959. The second section examines the historical literature itself, especially works written in Cuba and the United States in the last thirty-five years. It looks at the trends in the literature, with emphasis on the ways that historical writing has arrived at an understanding of the Cuban past. The third section offers a guide to some of the larger research collections, specifically those repositories of important manuscript collections and archival records relating to Cuba. It includes a description of the Cuban National Archives, missionary manuscript collections, and records of the U.S. government. Contents Part I. History Intervention and Collaboration: The Politics of Cuban Independence, 1898-1899 Cubans in Tampa: From Exiles to Immigrants, 1892-1901 The Imperial Design: Politics and Pedagogy in Occupied Cuba, 1899-1902 North American Protestant Missionaries in Cuba and the Culture of Hegemony, 1898-1920 Reminiscences of a "Lector": Cuban Cigar Workers in Tampa Ybor City Remembered Army Politics in Socialist Cuba, 1959-1969 Part II. Historiography Scholarship and the State: Notes on History of the Cuban Republic U.S.-Cuban Relations: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Historiography In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography, 1959-1979 The Cuban Revolution after Twenty-Five Years History, Historiography, and Cuban Studies Part III. Research The Archivo Nacional de Cuba Record Collections of the Cuban National Archives La Guerra Libertadora Cubana de los Treinta A�os, 1868-1898 Cuba Materials in the Bureau of Insular Affairs Library Protestant Missionaries in Cuba Research Perspectives on the Cuban Revolution: A Twenty-Five-Year Assessment Louis A. P�rez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his many books are Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899, Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy, 1770s-1980s, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, and Cuba Under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934, which received a Choice outstanding academic book award.

Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226465675
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Essay on the Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation.

Author : Mauricio Augusto Font
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109687
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Counterpoints written by Mauricio Augusto Font and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences--notably anthropology--and law, religion and national identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking--which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity--has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies.

Author : Esteban Morales Domínguez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673202
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in Cuba written by Esteban Morales Domínguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post-revolutionary context. Today, he is one of Cuba’s most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals and its leading authority on the race question. Available for the first time in English, the essays collected here describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward. Morales Dominguez surveys the major advancements in race relations that occurred as a result of the revolution, but does not ignore continuing signs of inequality and discrimination. Instead, he argues that the revolution must be an ongoing process and that to truly transform society it must continue to confront the question of race in Cuba.

Author : Alessandra Lorini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788884539717
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba written by Alessandra Lorini and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469608863
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Cuban History written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.

Author : Judith A. Weiss
Publisher : Chapel Hill, N.C. : Estudios de Hispanófila ; Madrid : distribuido por Editorial Castalia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casa de Las Américas written by Judith A. Weiss and published by Chapel Hill, N.C. : Estudios de Hispanófila ; Madrid : distribuido por Editorial Castalia. This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: