Essays in Cuban Intellectual History

Zusatztext " Essays in Cuban Intellectual History offers ample evidence that Cuban nationalism will remain fertile ground for our deepest intellectual quandaries. In that sense! in its rich array of hope! contradiction and fear! one must welcome the arrival of this book." - Román de la Campa! A Contra corriente Informationen zum Autor Rafael Rojas is Professor and Researcher, Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico City. Klappentext Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work! one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history! including the legacy of José Martí! the cultural effect of the war in 1898! the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature! the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period! the literary magazine Orígenes! the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution! and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury. Zusammenfassung Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface * "Otro Gallo Cantaría:" The First Cuban Republicanism * The Moral Frontier: 1898, Discourses at War * Against Homo Cubensis: Fernando Ortiz, Transculturation, and Nationalism * Orígenes and the Poetics of History * Gallery of Cuban Writing * Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature * Symbolic Dilemmas of the Cuban Transition

Product details

• Authors: R Rojas, R. Rojas, Rafael Rojas
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9780230603004
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60300-4
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Concepts in Latino America; New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri; New Concepts in Latino America
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, History of Ideas, Linguistics, Intellectual History, Linguistics, general, Literature: history & criticism, Language: history & general works, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Intellectual life—History, Intellectual Studies, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection