Introduction -- James J. O'Kelly at Jiguaní (1873) -- José Martí at Vega del Jobo (1895) -- Richard Harding Davis in Santiago de Cuba (1897) -- Edward Stratemeyer at Siboney (1898) -- Andrew Summers Rowan in Bayamo (1898) -- Josephine Herbst in Realengo 18 (1935) -- Antonio Núñez Jiménez in Pico Turquino (1945) -- 'Less than human': Guantánamo Bay (2002)
Summary
This book recounts a literary history of modern Cuba. It looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US as well as Cuban writers
