The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana Contributor(s): Tietchen, Todd F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813035201 ISBN-13: 9780813035208 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2010020665 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.00 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "As an early supporter of the original non-Communist Cuban revolution, I much appreciate this story of the involvement of American beat poets with the Fidelista cause. Dubbed the 'Cubalogues, ' their interaction with Cuban editors and poets is a unique part of Cuban cultural history, and it needs to be told to an American audience."--Lawrence Ferlinghetti "An exciting, timely, and wide-ranging intervention which reassesses the Beat Movement, the Beat canon, Cold War politics, and the Cuban Revolution. . . . A tight, lively and skillful presentation of the topic."--Sarah MacLachlan, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Chicano/a Literature and Culture
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 years the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influences.
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