Essays in Cuban Intellectual History

by Rojas, Rafael

• ISBN13: 9780230603004
• ISBN10: 0230603009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Well-known essayist Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on--and offers alternatives to--the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics covered include Jos Mart, Fernando Ortiz, and broader concepts of diaspora and memory in the Cuban literary canon.

Author Biography

Rafael Rojas is Professor and Researcher, Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico City, and he has been Visiting Professor at Princeton and Columbia University. He has written or edited more than fifteen books on Cuba, Mexican and Latin American culture. His latest book, Tumbas sin sosiego. Revolución, disidencia y exilio del intellectual cubano (2006), received The Premio Anagrama, the most prestigious prize for essay in the hispanic world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Jose Marti and the First Cuban Republicanism	p. 9
The Moral Frontier	p. 25
Fernando Ortiz: Transculturation and Nationalism	p. 43
Origenes and the Poetics of History	p. 65
Gallery of Cuban Writing	p. 93
Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature	p. 115
Symbolic Dilemmas of the Cuban Transition	p. 135
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 191
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