Contents
Preface
Elián González and the ‘‘Real Cuba’’ of Miami: Visions of Identity, Exceptionality, and Divinity (Lillian Guerra)
Between the Market and a Hard Place: Fernando Pérez’s Suite Habana in a Post-utopian Cuba (Elliott Young)
Revolution in the Cuban Countryside: The Blazing Cane of Las Villas, 1895–1898 (Gillian McGillivray)
Algunas reflexiones en torno a la película Alicia en el pueblo de las Maravillas (Laura Redruello)
Martí y Blaine: entre la colonialidad tenebrosa y la emancipación inalcanzable (Thomas Ward)
Las corrientes liberales habaneras a través de las publicaciones periódicas de la primera mitad del siglo xix (José María Aguilera Manzano)
José Angel Buesa y la impopularidad del éxito (Gustavo Pérez Firmat)
Reviews/Reseñas (K. Lynn Stoner and Gladys Marel García Pérez, editors)
Fe Iglesias. Economía del fin de siglo. Estudio histórico sobre la consolidación del capitalismo y las premisas de la República inaugurada el 20 de mayo de 1902. Santiago de Cuba: Editorial Oriente, 2005. Reviewed by Oscar Zanetti Lecuona.
Newton Briones Montoto. General regreso, Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2005. Reviewed by Mireya Báez García.
Alan McPherson. Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003; Michele Zebich-Knos and Heather N. Nicol, eds. Foreign Policy toward Cuba: Isolation or Engagement. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2005
Carlos del Toro González. La alta burguesía cubana 1920–1958. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2003. Reviewed by Maikel Fariñas Borrego.
Oscar Zanetti Lecuona. Las manos en el dulce. Havana, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2004. Reviewed by Alejandro García Álvarez.
Rodrigo Lazo. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Reviewed by Jon M. Flashnick.
Lillian Guerra. The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Reviewed by José Gomariz.
Mayra Beatriz Martínez. Martí, eros y mujer (revisitando el canon). Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2005. Reviewed by Pedro Pablo Rodríguez.
Mark Q. Sawyer. Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reviewed by Scott Walker.
Gladys Marel García Pérez. Insurrección y Revolución (1952–1959). Havana: Ediciones Union, 2006. Reviewed by Ana A. Lamas González.
Hal Klepak, Cuba’s Military 1990–2005. Revolutionary Soldiers during Counter-Revolutionary Times. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Reviewed by Raúl Benítez Manaut.
John Lawrence Tone. War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Reviewed by David C. Carlson.
Recent Work in Cuban Studies (Teresa Chapa, bibliography editor)
Contributors