Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente
Peter Hulme
Abstract
This book recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus — while including fiction and poetry — is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that c ... More
Keywords: literary history, Cuba, Havana, rebellion, heroism, sacrifice, memoir, testimony, US writers, Cuban writers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9781846317484 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846317170 |
