Cuba and Puerto Rico : transdisciplinary approaches to history, literature, and culture / edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany.

"In this first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos and encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diaspo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: University of Florida. Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Rivera, Carmen Haydée (Editor)
Duany, Jorge (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Popular culture > Cuba.
Popular culture > Puerto Rico.
Cuban literature > History.
Puerto Rican literature > History.
Cuba > History.
Puerto Rico > History.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
Cuban literature.
Popular culture.
Puerto Rican literature.
Cuba.
Puerto Rico.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "Two Wings of a Bird" / Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany
  • Part I. Cuba and Puerto Rico: Historical Perspectives
  • Passive Puerto Rico and Revolutionary Cuba?: Myths, Realities, and the Optics of History / Lillian Guerra
  • Nuclearized Wings: The Binary Roads of Cuba and Puerto Rico at the Takeoff of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1963) / Silvia AÌvarez Curbelo
  • The Repeating Island?: Cuban and Puerto Rican Counterpoints between the Cold War and the Reencounter / Francisco A. Scarano
  • Local Eyes into Caribbean Rural Life: Anthropological Informants in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Post-World War II Era / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres
  • The Harlem of the Club Las Dos Antillas: Race, Space, and Politics in Early Antillean New York / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
  • Part II. Puerto Rican and Cuban Literary Expression
  • Exploding the Limits of Bodies and Islands: The Literary Works of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Legna Rodríguez Iglesias / Monica Simal
  • Puerto Rico en Areíto: Translation, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, and Other Collaborations among Cuban and Puerto Rican Migrant Intellectuals / Laura Lomas
  • Psychological and Physical Space in Puerto Rican and Cuban Twentieth-Century Theater / Maida Watson
  • Hechos and desechos: Environmental Degradation and Violence in Mayra Montero's Tú, la oscuridad / Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín
  • Caribbean Dialogues by María Zambrano / Madeline Cámara
  • "The Two Ephemeral Wings of the Angel of Love": Archipelagic Fantasies in the Narrative of Lourdes Casal and Manuel Ramos Otero / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
  • Part III. Manifestations of Cuban and Puerto Rican Culture
  • Listening to Our New Possessions: Music and Imperial Writings on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1898-1920s / Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
  • The Musical Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Latin Music Scene of New York City and Interethnic Collaboration among Puerto Ricans and Cubans / Benjamin Lapidus
  • Allora and Calzadilla: Noise and the Politics of Sonic Decoloniality / Alan West-Durán
  • The Narratives and Life Projects of Orientales from Cuba in Puerto Rico and Florida: An Initial Comparative Study / Blanca Ortiz-Torres and Mario A. Rodríguez-Cancel
  • Becoming Cuba-Rican: A Personal Testimony / Jorge Duany