Contents
Preface
In Memoriam: Francisco Pérez Guzmán
Black Music in a Raceless Society: Afrocuban Folklore and Socialism (Robin Moore)
Irreverent Humor in Postrevolutionary Cuban Fiction: The Case of Mirta Yáñez (Sara E. Cooper)
La ciudad como espacio de tortura en La carne de René y Pequeñas maniobras de Virgilio Piñera (Carolyn Wolfenzon)
Protecting Cuba’s Environment: Efforts to Design and Implement Effective Environmental Laws and Policies in Cuba (Daniel Whittle and Orlando Rey Santos)
La temporalidad del canon: la narrativa y la poesía en Cuba (James J. Pancrazio)
International Education Flows between the United States and Cuba (1959–2005): Policy Winds and Exchange Flows (Skye Stephenson)
Reviews/Reseñas (K. Lynn Stoner and Gladys Marel García Pérez, editors)
Review Essay: The Cuban Economy during the Special Period and Beyond. By Carmelo Mesa-Lago.
Review Essay: Hablemos de crítica y de debate. By Tomás Fernández Robaina.
Mirta Fernández Martínez. A la Sombra del Árbol Tutelar. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2004. Reviewed by Gabino La Rosa Corzo.
José Alvarez and Lázaro Peña Castellaños. Cuba’s Sugar Industry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Reviewed by Richard Sicotte.
Alain Basail Rodríguez. El Lápiz Rojo. Prensa, censura e identidad cubana (1878–1895). Havana: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, 2003. Reviewed by María del Carmen Barcia Zequeira.
Luisa Campuzano. Las muchachas de La Habana no tienen temor de Dios. Havana: Ediciones Unión, 2004. Reviewed by Nara Araújo.
John Charles Chasteen. National Rhythms, African Roots. The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Reviewed by Robin Moore.
Francisco Pérez Guzmán. Radiografía del Ejército Libertador 1895–1898. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2005. Reviewed by Yoel Cordoví Núñez.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Reviewed by K. Lynn Stoner.
Jorge Ibarra Cuesta. Varela el precursor. Un estudio de época. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2004. Reviewed by Olga Portuondo Zúñiga.
Gabino La Rosa and Mirtha T. González. Cazadores de esclavos: Diarios. Havana: La Fuente Viva 16, Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 2004. Reviewed by Gloria García.
Recent Work in Cuban Studies (Teresa Chapa, bibliography editor)
Contributors