Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
La neblina del ayer de Leonardo Padura (Guía de lectura)
Resumen y análisis completo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2017
ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La neblina del ayer, del escritor cubano Leonardo Padura. En una novela en la que pasado y presente se confunden, el autor realiza un retrato crítico de la vida cotidiana en Cuba a través de las investigaciones del expolicía Mario Conde....
by Jorge Mañach Robato
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Como él mismo Mañach señala, Perfil de nuestras letras surgió de una sugerencia de la dirección del periódico, para que comenzase a redactar una serie de artículos en los cuales desarrollara algún tema continuo. Entre febrero de 1947 y octubre de 1948 publicó 34 trabajos, que siempre salían...
by Mervyn Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Louise Bennett Coverley, ‘Miss Lou’, has for decades represented the ‘face’ of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and children’s television show host, she won hearts and souls...
The Cubalogues
Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting...
Beyond Cuban Waters
Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Twenty-first century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily...
Cuba in the American Imagination
Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these...
Chinese Cubans
A Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better...
Cuban Revolution in America
Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization,...
With All, and for the Good of All
The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1989
Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker José Martí within the political...
by Fabián Escalante Font
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Como parte de los eternos y frustrados planes del imperialismo estadounidense de exterminar a la entonces naciente Revolución, por medio de su gobierno y su fiel aliada, la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA), se concibió la Operación Mangosta, y como parte integrante de esta el Proyecto Cuba...
by Fabián Escalante Font
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Durante más de 10 lustros, el Imperialismo ha intentado destruir por todos los medios a la Revolución Cubana, y exterminar a nuestro pueblo.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study examines the traditional interpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the Navy's quarantine of the island. A bevy of political scientists, and even a few historians, have compiled an impressive literature...
Cuba and the United States
Intervention and Militarism, 1868-1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
When Cuba threw off the yoke of Spanish rule at the end of the nineteenth century, it did so with the help of another foreign power, the United States. Thereafter, the United States became involved in Cuban affairs, intervening twice militarily (1898-1902 and 1906-1909). What was the effect of U.S. intervention?...
by Xiomara Berland
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 13, 2013
El vuelo de una paloma es el comienzo de una historia de vida que aún no termina, es un ser humano que como tu todos los días abre sus alas para seguir volando en el transcurso de la vida y el espacio, sin saber que le repara el destino, es un ser que como tu ha vivido momentos hermosos, tristes,...