Contents
Preface
Introduction: Señoras no ordinarias (Sherry Johnson)
‘‘Señoras en sus clases no ordinarias’’: Enemy Collaborators or Courageous Defenders of the Family? (Sherry Johnson)
La División de La Habana: Territorial Conflict and Cultural Hegemony in the Followers of Oyo Lukumí Religion, 1850s–1920s (Miguel Ramos)
Militant Heroines and the Consecration of the Patriarchal State: The Glorification of Loyalty, Combat, and National Suicide in the Making of Cuban National Identity (K. Lynn Stoner)
Murder in San Isidro: Crime and Culture during the Second Cuban Republic (Mayra Beers)
The Radical Muse: Women and Anarchism in Early-Twentieth-Century Cuba (Kirwin Shaffer)
‘‘Toward the Gates of Eternity’’: Celia Sánchez Manduley and the Creation of Cuba’s New Woman (Tiffany A. Thomas-Woodard)
Conclusion: Enshrined on a Pedestal (K. Lynn Stoner)
Archives
Cuba-Related Archival Holdings in Miami (Marisa Montes)
Comment (James G. Hershberg)
Reply (Anna Kasten Nelson)
Reviews (Sherry Johnson and Damián Fernández, editors)
Alfredo A. Fernández. Adrift: The Cuban Raft People. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2000. 263 pp. Reviewed by Holly Ackerman.
Gustavo Pérez Firmat. My Own Private Cuba: Essays on Cuban Literature and Culture. Boulder, Colo.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1999. 251pp. Reviewed by Madeline Cámara.
Alexander von Humboldt. The Island of Cuba: A Political Essay. Kingston, R.I.: Ian Randle Publishers, 2001. 280 pp. Reviewed by John Clune.
Jorge Ibarra. Prologue to Revolution: Cuba, 1898–1958. Translated by Marjorie Moore. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. 229 pp. Reviewed by John Dumoulin.
Charley Gerard. Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. 155 pp. Reviewed by Raul Fernandez.
Alberto F. Alvarez García and Gerardo González Nuñez. ¿Intelectuales vs. revolución?: El caso del Centro de Estudios sobre América, CEA. Montreal: Ediciones Arte D.T., 2001. 212 pp. Reviewed by Peter T. Johnson.
Carlos Lechuga. Cuba and the Missile Crisis. Translated by Mary Todd. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press, 2001. 174 pp.; and Robert M. Levine. Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 323 pp. Reviewe
Antoni Kapcia. Cuba: Island of Dreams. New York: Berg, 2000. 295 pp. Reviewed by Anthony P. Maingot.
Jaime Suchlicki. Historical Dictionary of Cuba, 2d ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 880 pp. Reviewed by Luis Martínez-Fernández.
Madeline Cámara. Vocación de Casandra: Poesía femenina cubana subversiva en María Elena Cruz Varela. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.131 pp. Reviewed by Adriana Méndez-Rodenas.
Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs, eds. Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 200 pp. Reviewed by Robin Moore.
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno. Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century. With a new introduction by Elizabeth Dore. Edited by Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Translated by Anne McLean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. 182 pp.
Katherine J. Hagedorn. Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2001. 296 pp. Reviewed by Terry Rey.
Marta Bizcarrondo and Antonio Elorza. Cuba/España: El dilema autonomista, 1878–1898. Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2001. 452 pp. Reviewed by Joaquín Roy.
Sherry Johnson. The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 267 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.
Efrén Córdova. El trabajo forzoso en Cuba: Un recorrido amargo de la historia. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2001. 262 pp. Reviewed by Kirwin Shaffer.
Recent Work in Cuban Studies (Marian Goslinga, compiler)
Contributors