Maurico A. Font is Director of the Bildner Centre for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at the graduate centre and Queens college, City University of New York. Araceli Tinajero is Professor of Spanish at the Graduate Centre and the City College of New York. She is the author of El Lector: a History of the Cigar Factory, amongst other books.
General Introduction Part I: History 1 El derecho de nacer: Legitimidad,
historia, y literatura en Cuba 2 In Defense of the Cuban Revolution:
Mobilization and Popular Support for Revolutionary Change, 1959-1961 3
Youth Organizations in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1962: From Unidad to
Vanguardia 4 Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952-2002 5 Cuban Corporatism:
Batista's Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayed 6 An Anarchist Crucible:
Transnational Radicals in Cuba, 1900-1915 7 The Hernández Family:
Migration, Cubanidad, and Transnational Identities Part II: Literature and
Intellectuals 8 Defining the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the
Doctrine of Martí 9 Fantoches 1926: A Collective Crime Mystery 10 Reinaldo
Arenas: The Spokesman of the Invisible Community 11 Havana, a City of
Disenchantment in the Narrative of Padura Fuentes 12 El sujeto cubano en
ruinas y las heterotopías sexualizadas de La Habana en Contrabando de
sombras, de Antonio José Ponte Part III: Arts 13 "La Habana está en todas
partes": Young Musicians and the Symbolic Redefinition of the Cuban Nation
14 Rumba Performance and the Politics of Place in the Era of Cultural
Tourism 15 Cuban Ethnicities in Cinematic Context, 1930s-1950s 16 Fashion
in Twenty-First-Century Havana 17 Infidelity in Cuban Drama of the 1980s
and 1990s: Toward a Positive Interpretation of Rupture 18 Teatro cubano del
transmilenio, 1990-2010 19 P.M. in the Artistic Context 20 Una mirada
historiográfica a la plástica cubana contemporánea: La Generación de cierta
esperanza versus la Generación de la esperanza cierta
