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Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante,Kenneth Hall

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Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante,Kenneth Hall

Mea Cuba is a political autobiography, the political testament of Cuba's greatest living writer, a collection of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's writings on Cuba from 1968-1992. In this remarkable and compelling volume Cabrera Infante explores the nature of the Cuban revolution and, as he sees it, its evil genius Fidel Castro. Writing from exile he has produced an analysis of his homeland and of the last surviving communist revolution that is at once brilliant, brilliantly witty, magisterial and profound.

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503

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0571172555

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9780571172559

Map Drawn by A Spy

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Map Drawn by A Spy

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his country. In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro: imprisonment of homosexuals, silencing of writers, the closing of libraries and newspapers, and the consolidation of power. Both lucid and sincere, Map Drawn by a Spy is a moving portrayal of a fractured society and a writer's struggles to come to terms with his national identity.

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Archipelago

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0914671790

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9780914671794

Three Trapped Tigers

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Three Trapped Tigers

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

From the Publisher: Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

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510

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564783790

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9781564783790

Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrena Infante

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Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrena Infante

Quirky, unpredictable, often hilarious, Infante's book tells us much about the effect of the Cuban revolution on Cuban literature." - Publishers Weekly With bitter irony, the author tells a story sadly repeated during this century. A dictatorship that silences the intellectuals, a regime that lies and kills, and a propaganda war that has yet to end. One of the best compilations of documents on recent Cuban history.

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522

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Macmillan

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0374524467

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9780374524463

Chicano Satire

A Study in Literary Culture

By: Guillermo Hernandez

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Chicano Satire

A Study in Literary Culture

By: Guillermo Hernandez

Geographically close to Mexico, but surrounded by Anglo-American culture in the United States, Chicanos experience many cultural tensions and contradictions. Their lifeways are no longer identical with Mexican norms, nor are they fully assimilated to Anglo-American patterns. Coping with these tensions—knowing how much to let go of, how much to keep—is a common concern of Chicano writers, who frequently use satire as a means of testing norms and deviations from acceptable community standards. In this groundbreaking study, Guillermo Hernández focuses on the uses of satire in the works of three authors—Luis Valdez, Rolando Hinojosa, and José Montoya—and on the larger context of Chicano culture in which satire operates. Hernández looks specifically at the figures of the pocho (the assimilated Chicano) and the pachuco (the zoot-suiter, or urbanized youth). He shows how changes in their literary treatment—from simple ridicule to more understanding and respect—reflect the culture's changes in attitude toward the process of assimilation. Hernández also offers many important insights into the process of cultural definition that engaged Chicano writers during the 1960s and 1970s. He shows how the writers imaginatively and syncretically formed new norms for the Chicano experience, based on elements from both Mexican and United States culture but congruent with the historical reality of Chicanos. With its emphasis on culture change and creation, Chicano Satire will be of interest across a range of human sciences.

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167

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University of Texas Press

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0292746113

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9780292746114

Cubans, an Epic Journey

The Struggle of Exiles for Truth and Freedom

By: Sam Verdeja,Guillermo Martínez

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Cubans, an Epic Journey

The Struggle of Exiles for Truth and Freedom

By: Sam Verdeja,Guillermo Martínez

This book is a collection of more than thirty essays by renowned scholars, historians, journalists, and media professionals that portray the experience of Cubans exiled in the United States and other countries in the last sixty years.

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801

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Reedy Press LLC

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1935806203

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9781935806202

We the Cubans

By: Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera

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We the Cubans

By: Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera

We the Cubans" by Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera is a catchy and accurate portrait of the essence of Cuban identity. The significance of being an Island; the inescapable relationship between history, society, and politics; the mix of races, religions, and cultures are analyzed here—not from an academic or traditional perspective, but from a more personal approach.

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107

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RUTH

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9590905366

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9789590905360

Map Drawn by A Spy

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Archipelago

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0914671790

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9780914671794

Holy Smoke

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Holy Smoke

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When Columbus first came across tobacco in Cuba he was unimpressed--he was looking for gold. How could he know that tobacco would become the multi-million-dollar business that it is today? And that the island of Cuba was destined to produce the best cigars in the world? Holy Smoke is Cabrera Infante's outrageous and informative account of the amazing story of the cigar, from those early beginnings in 1492 to the sophisticated Cohibas of today. The importance of the brand (and the band); cultivation and manufacture; how to cut and how to smoke; why a cigarette is not a cigar: Cabrera Infante includes a wealth of fascinating material, including references from the worlds of literature and film. This is the funniest, most original tribute to the cigar ever written.--From publisher description.

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0571135188

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9780571135189

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