| Description |
viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined -- 1. Nancy Morejon: Poet of Cultural Crossroads. The Stone and Its Images -- 2. Alejo Carpentier: Symphonist of History's Emblems. History as Stepping Razor: Tragedy and Revolution in Explosion in a Cathedral -- 3. Virgilio Pinera: History to the Bone. History and Its Doubles: The Master-Slave Dialectic, or What Happens When Hegel Meets the Keystone Cops -- 4. Dulce Maria Loynaz: Cuba's Living History. The House Where the Nation Dreams -- 5. Jose Lezama Lima: The Re-Enchantment of the Wor(l)d. Dragons and Theurgy: Lezama's Images of History -- 6. Severo Sarduy: Histories as Desire. Cross-Dressing as Transculturation -- 7. Paradigms Lost: The Manigua of Meaning -- Coda: Living Tropes, Living Hopes -- App. Cuban History: An Overview |
| Summary |
"Ensayos (en inglés) sobre importantes figuras literarias del siglo XX - Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Piñera, Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima, y Severo Sarduy - y la creación imaginativa de Cuba y su historia a trave ́s de sus textos. Los capítulos finales contienen un apretada síntesis histórica que ayudan al lector no familiarizado con el país a situar a estos escritores y su obra dentro de su contexto"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-210) and index |
| Subject |
Cuban literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- Cuba.
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| SUBJECT |
Cuba -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034561
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Cuba -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009122636
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| LC no. |
96047628 |
| ISBN |
0897893387 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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