Contents
Preface
Contra el homo cubensis: Transculturación y nacionalismo en la obra de Fernando Ortiz (Rafael Rojas)
Poetic Prose and Useless Fictions: Political Ideology and Literary Form in Eliseo Alberto’s Informe contra mí mismo (James Buckwalter-Arias)
Francisco de Arango y Parreño: El discurso esclavista de la ilustración cubana (José Gomariz)
The Cuba Company and the Creation of Informal Business Networks: Historiography and Archival Sources (Juan Carlos Santamarina)
The Evolution and Characteristics of Cuban-Owned Firms in the United States (Sergio Díaz-Briquets)
Social Policy Responses to Cuba’s Economic Crisis of the 1990s (Miren Uriarte)
Reviews (Sherry Johnson and Damián Fernández, editors)
Stephan Palmié. Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 399 pp. Reviewed by Alejandro de la Fuente.
Susan D. Greenbaum. More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 384 pp. Reviewed by Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez.
James G. Blight and Philip Brenner. Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 352 pp. Juan J. López. Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba. Baltimore: Johns Hopk
Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 198 pp. Fernando Martínez Heredia, Rebecca J. Scott,
Mercedes García Rodríguez. Misticismo y capitales: La Compañía de Jesús en la economía habanera del siglo XVIII. Habana: Ciencias Sociales, 2000. 208 pp. Reviewed by Jeffrey Klaiber.
Tomás Diez Acosta. October 1962: The ‘‘Missile’’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. New York: Pathfinder, 2002. 350 pp. Reviewed by Virginia W. Leonard.
Enrique Río Prado. La Venus de bronce: Hacia una historia de la zarzuela cubana. Boulder: Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, 2002. 248 pp. Reviewed by Lillian Manzor.
Lowery Stokes Sims. Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923–1982. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. 281 pp. Reviewed by Juan A. Martinez.
Catherine Davies, ed. Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. 214 pp. Reviewed by Adriana Méndez Rodenas.
Anne Fountain. José Martí and U.S. Writers. Foreword by Roberto Fernández Retamar. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 154 pp. Reviewed by Oscar Montero.
Julia E. Sweig. Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 248 pp. Reviewed by Marifeli Pérez-Stable.
Irving Louis Horowitz and Jaime Suchlicki, eds. Cuban Communism, 1959–2003, 11th edition. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2003. 735 pp. Reviewed by Wayne S.Smith.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. and Rebecca J. Scott, eds. The Archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 240 pp. Reviewed by Mary Speck.
María Elena Díaz. The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 424 pp. Reviewed by Jean Stubbs.
Mark Falcoff, ed. The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A History in Documents, 1958–1960. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Cuba Press, 2001. 452 pp. Reviewed by William O. Walker III.
Sahadeo Basdeo and Heather N. Nicol, eds. Canada, the United States, and Cuba: An Evolving Relationship. Miami: North-South Center Press, University of Miami, 2002. 179 pp. Reviewed by Cristina Warren.
Recent Work in Cuban Studies (Marian Goslinga, compiler)
Contributors