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Informationen zum Autor Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940 and coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (published by Duke University Press).Barry Carr is Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico and coeditor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika.Pamela Maria Smorkaloff is Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University. She is the author of Cuban Writers on and off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction and Readers and Writers in Cuba: A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s–1990s and editor of If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean. Klappentext The essential collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history and cultral writing from and about Cuba. The latest in the series that also includes the Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru Readers. Zusammenfassung Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms - either as the site of one of Latin America's most successful revolutions or as the repressive regime that is the world's last bastion of communism. This book presents more than one hundred selections about Cuba's history! culture! and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 I. Indigenous Society and Conquest Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba / Christopher Columbus 9 The Devastation of the Indies / Bartolome de Las Casas 12 Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance / Various Spanish Officials 15 A World Destroyed / Juan Perez de la Riva 20 "Transculturation" and Cuba / Fernando Ortiz 26 Survival Stories / Jose Barreiro 28 II. Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism A Physician's Notes on Cuba / John G. F. Wurdemann 39 The Death of the Forest / Manuel Moreno Fraginals 44 Autobiography of a Slave / Juan Francisco Manzano 49 Biography of a Runaway Slave / Miguel Barnet 58 Fleeing Slavery / Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael Garcia, and Rafael Duharte 65 Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves / Rafael Duharte 69 Rumba / Yvonne Daniel 74 The Trade in Chinese Laborers / Richard Dana 79 Life on a Coffee Plantation / John G. F. Wurdemann 83 Cuba's First Railroad / David Turnbull 88 The Color Line / Jose Antonio Saco 91 Abolition! / Father Felix Varela 94 Cecilia Valdes / Cirilo Villaverde 97 Sab / Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga 103 An Afro-Cuban Poet / Placido 110 III. The Struggle for Independence Freedom and Slavery / Carlos Manuel de Cespedes 115 Memories of a Cuban Girl / Renee Mendez Capote 118 Jose Marti's "Our America" / Jose Marti 122 Guantanamera / Jose Marti 128 The Explosion of the Maine / New York Journal 130 U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba / John J. Johnson 135 The Devastation of Counterinsurgency / Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session 139 IV. Neocolonialism The Platt Amendment / President Theodore Roosevelt 147 Imperialism and Sanitation / Nancy Stepan 150 A Child of the Platt Amendment / Renee Mendez Capote 154 Spain in Cuba / Manuel Moreno Fraginals 157 The Independent Party of Color / El Partido Independiente de Color 163 A Survivor / Isidoro Santos Carrera 167 Rachel's Song / Miguel Barnet 171 Honest Women / Miguel de Carrion 180 Generals and Doctors / Carlos Loveira 186 A Crucial Decade / Lolo de la Torriente 189 Afrocubanismo and Son / Robin Moore 192 Drums in My Eyes / Nicolas Guillen 201 Abakua / Rafael Lopez Valdes 212 The First Wave of Cuban Feminism / Ofelia Dominguez Navarro 219 Life at the Mill / Ursinio Rojas 226 Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry / Levi Marrero 234 The Cuban Coun...
