Table of Contents Cuban Studies 47
Editor’s Note / Nota del Editor
Alejandro de la Fuente
ARTICLES
Dossier: “Cultural Politics / Political Cultures of the Cuban Revolution”
Organized by Michael Bustamante
Cultural Politics / Political Cultures of the Cuban Revolution: New Directions in Scholarship
Michael Bustamante
The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba and its Role in the Cuban Revolution’s Cultural Project
Marysol Quevedo
The Footsteps of Nieves Fresneda: Cuban Folkloric Dance and Cultural Policy, 1959-1979
Elizabeth Schwall
El simbólico siglo XIX en la literatura cubana posterior a 1959
Elizabeth Mirabal
Cinco recuerdos del porvenir
Carlos Velazco
History
Education, Labor, and State Legitimacy within Cuban Arts: A Study of State Cultural Policy, 1940-1959
Cary Aileen Garcia Yero
“Feeling like Fidel”: Scholarly Meditations on History, Memory and the Legacies of Fidel Castro
Lillian Guerra
¿Cuándo terminó la Revolución Cubana? Una Discusión.
Jorge Domínguez, Yvon Grenier, Julio César Guanche, Jennifer Lambe, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Silvia Pedraza, y Rafael Rojas
Culture and Society
“Transpensar”: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Race in José Martí’s Philosophy
Adriana Novoa
La moda en la literatura cubana, 1960-1970: tejiendo y destejiendo al hombre nuevo
María A. Cabrera Arús and Mirta Suquet
Baroque Revolutionaries, Communist Fags and Risky Friendships: Reading the Politics of Friendship in
Fresa y chocolate
Christina Garcia
The ‘Special Relationship’ and the Challenge of Export Diversification: Cuban Exports of Fruits and Vegetables to the United States, 1900 to 1962
Carmen Diana Deere
Cuban Macroeconomic Trends and the Pending Monetary Reform
Pavel Vidal
PREMIO NACIONAL DE ARTES PLASTICAS 2017
Te Estoy Mirando
Eduardo Roca “Choco”
PRIMARY SOURCES
Cartas contra la deriva. Christoph Singler
- Carta de Antonia Eiriz a Guido Llinas, 1ro de septiembre, 1964
- Carta de Antonia Eiriz a Guido Llinas, 31 de enero, 1965
- Carta de Raul Martinez a Guido Llinas, 30 de octubre, 1964
- Carta de Raul Martinez a Guido Llinas, 10 de febrero, 1966
- Carta de Calvert Casey a Guido Llinas, 22 de agosto, 1964
Sources 1 and 2 belong to the archive of Antonia Eiriz. Sources 3 – 5 belong to the archive of Guido Llinás.
BOOK REVIEWS
History
Jennifer Lambe,
Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Reviewed by Samuel Farber
Jason M. Yaremko,
Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515 to 1900. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016. Reviewed by Ida Altman
Culture and Society
Juan Carlos Flores,
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. Reviewed by Madeline Cámara
Tanya L. Saunders,
Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Reviewed by Leslie Santana
Roberto G. Fernández,
El príncipe y la bella cubana. Madrid: Verbum, 2014. Reviewed by Belén Rodríguez Mourelo
Rafael Rojas, Velia Cecilia Bobes y Armando Chaguaceda, coords.
El cambio constitucional en Cuba. Actores, Instituciones y Leyes de un proceso político. Ciudad de México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017. Reviewed by Leduan Ramírez Pérez
Elías Miguel Muñoz,
The Diary of Fire. Tincture, Lethe Press, 2016. Reviewed by Rebecca Salois
Samuel Farber,
The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016. Reviewed by Rafael Acosta Arriba
Economy
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, et al.
Voices of Change in Cuba from the Expanding Non-State Sector. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Reviewed by Omar Everleny Pérez Villaneuva
Contributors
On the cover
William Hernández,
La vírgen de los barquitos, 2004, oil on canvas, 47” x 37”
