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Tropics of history : Cuba imagined

Alan West
"Ensayos (en inglés) sobre importantes figuras literarias del siglo XX - Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Piñera, Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima, y Severo Sarduy - y la creación imaginativa de Cuba y su historia a través de sus textos. Los capítulos finales contienen un apretada síntesis histórica que ayudan al lector no familiarizado con el país a situar a estos escritores y su obra dentro de su contexto"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Print Book, English, 1997
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Conn., 1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
9780897893381, 0897893387
35792366
Nancy Morejón : poet of cultural crossroads. The stone and its images
Alejo Carpentier : symphonist of history's emblems. History as stepping razor : tragedy and revolution in Explosion in a cathedral
Virgilio Piñera : history to the bone. History and its doubles : the master-slave dialectic, or what happens when Hegel meets the Keystone Cops
Dulce María Loynaz : Cuba's living history. The house where the nation dreams. José Lezama Lima : the re-enchantment of the wor(l)d. Dragons and theurgy : Lezama's images of history
Severo Sarduy : histories as desire. Cross-dressing as transculturation
Paradigms lost : the Manigua of meaning
Living tropes, living hopes
Appendix: Cuban history : an overview