{"product_id":"the-cuba-reader-history-culture-politics-9780822331971","title":"The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics","description":"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 bastion of the world's last communist regime. \u003ci\u003eThe Cuba Reader\u003c\/i\u003e multiplies perspectives on the nation many times over, presenting more than one hundred selections about Cuba's history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cuba Reader\u003c\/i\u003e combines songs, paintings, photographs, poems, short stories, speeches, cartoons, government reports and proclamations, and pieces by historians, journalists, and others. Most of these are by Cubans, and many appear for the first time in English. The writings and speeches of Jos  Mart , Fernando Ortiz, Fidel Castro, Alejo Carpentier, Che Guevera, and Reinaldo Arenas appear alongside the testimonies of slaves, prostitutes, doctors, travelers, and activists. Some selections examine health, education, Catholicism, and santer a; others celebrate Cuba's vibrant dance, music, film, and literary cultures. The pieces are grouped into chronological sections. Each section and individual selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume presents a number of pieces about twentieth-century Cuba, including the events leading up to and following Castro's January 1959 announcement of revolution. It provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America and the Caribbean, its alliance with the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, and its tumultuous relationship with the United States. \u003ci\u003eThe Cuba Reader\u003c\/i\u003e also describes life in the \u003ci\u003eperiodo especial\u003c\/i\u003e following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. embargo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, \u003ci\u003eThe Cuba Reader \u003c\/i\u003eis an invaluable introduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-61499\"\u003eAviva Chomsky\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.36w x 1.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822331971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822331977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS041000\"\u003eCaribbean \u0026amp; West Indies | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS054000\"\u003eSocial History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e1940\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e (published by Duke University Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarry Carr is Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of\u003ci\u003e The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePamela Maria Smorkaloff is Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Cuban Writers on and off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Readers and Writers in Cuba: A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e1990s\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of\u003ci\u003e If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44687266087149,"sku":"9780822331971","price":59.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_efd145f0-6f96-48b2-983f-7d96d3749f3b.jpg?v=1703658804","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-cuba-reader-history-culture-politics-9780822331971","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}