Cuba's Wild East : a Literary Geography of Oriente.
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| Author / Creator: | Hulme, Peter, author. |
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| Imprint: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (472 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, 1 American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, 1. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11301705 |
| Summary: | Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente 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 corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US journalists and novelists as well as by Cuban writers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (472 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846317484 1846317487 9781846317170 1846317177 |