Cuba

Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons

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eBook

2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Volume

Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9780684316840

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Overview

Cuba contains interpretative essays on major topics in Cuban history, culture, and society. It also includes short, focused essays on artistic, literary, and nonfiction works, on major events, and on places of cultural significance. Adding to the product's appeal are approximately 300 full-color images.
This title breaks the mold of a reference encyclopedia. Rather than overwhelm the reader with thousands of entries and biographies, CUBA offers a close look at major themes that are emblematic to the country's unique history. Articles are authored by scholars from Cuba as well as the United States and other countries; collectively, they provide a comprehensive dialogue on Cuba's place in the world.
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The set includes a beautiful full-color design.

Writers are top scholars from around the world, with approximately half of the contributors still living in Cuba, providing a wide range of perspectives on this polarized country.

The entries cover diverse topics not found in any other reference book on Cuba, such as the development of the television and radio industries, perspectives on sexuality in Cuba, and the status of the performing arts. This information is available only in

There are approximately 300 images.

Extensive cross-references show readers connections between topics.
Introduction.
List of Contributors.
A.
Afro-Cuban Spirituality in the Art of Manuel Mendive.
La Anunciacion (Antonia Eiriz).
Aponte Rebellion: 1811-1812.
The Art of Rene Portocarrero.
Autobiography of a Slave (Juan Francisco Manzano).
Azucar y Poblacion en las Antillas (Ramiro Guerra).
B.
Baracoa.
Bayamo.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: 1961.
C.
Car Culture.
Cecilia Valdes (Cirilo Villaverde).
Che Guevara and the New Man.
Che Guevara, Social and Political Thought.
Cienfuegos.
Classical Composers: Alejandro Garcia Caturla.
Classical Composers: Amadeo Roldan.
Classical Composers: Leo Brouwer.
Classical Composers: Tania Leon.
Cocina Cubana: Nitza Villapol.
The Color of Summer (Reinaldo Arenas).
Constantino Arias: Havana's Pre-Revolution Photographer.
Constitution of 1940.
Cuban Adjustment Act.
Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Fernando Ortiz).
Cuban Embargo.
Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962.
The Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Cuban Singers in the United States.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Various Ways of (Not) Being Cuban.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Art and Literature of the 19th Century.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Republican Period.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Revolutionary Period.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Internet Blogging.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Internet Experience in Cuba.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Populism, Nationalism, and Cubania.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Quinceaneras.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Radical Catholicism and Social Justice.
Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Socialist Thought.
Cuentos Negros de Cuba (Lydia Cabrera).
D.
De Donde Son los Cantantes (Severo Sarduy).
Dia de Reyes en la Habana (Victor Patricio de Landaluze).
Dialogo Agreement.
Diasporas.
Diasporas: Introduction.
Diasporas: 19th Century.
Diasporas: 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Diasporas: Afro-Cubans in the Di
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2011 - Library Journal Best Reference

"Alan West-Duran has produced a magnificent reference book, of value to anyone working seriously on Cuba, as well as to the general reader; and it is one that, thanks to its elegant and thoughtful essays, is eminently readable throughout."

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