Contents
Preface
In Memoriam: Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931–2005)
La patria que nace de lejos: Cuba y lo cubano en la vanguardia de Martí (Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez)
Prensa, política y prostitución en La Habana finisecular: El caso de La Cebolla y la ‘‘polémica de las meretrices’’ (Beatriz Calvo Peña)
Prosperity, Progress, and Wealth: Cuban Enterprise during the Early Republic, 1902–1927 (Mary Speck)
Stretching the Limits of Gendered Spaces: Black and Mulatto Women in 1830s Havana (Luz Mena)
Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century (Gema R. Guevara)
Fleeing the Revolution: The Exodus of Cuban Jewry in the Early 1960s (Dana Evan Kaplan)
Reviews/Reseñas (K. Lynn Stoner and Gladys Marel García Pérez, editors)
Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Cuba en su imagen: Historia e identidad en la literatura cubana. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2002. Reviewed by Nara Araújo.
Ernesto Che Guevara. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003; and David Deutschmann, ed. Che Guevara Reader, 2nd ed. Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003. Reviewed by Paul J. Dosal.
Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Reviewed by Roberto González Echevarría.
Muriel McAvoy. Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Reviewed by Gail Hollander.
Servando González. The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol. Oakland, Calif.: InteliBooks Publishers, 2001. Reviewed by Antoni Kapcia.
Antonio Rafael de la Cova. Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Reviewed by Neill Macaulay.
Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds. The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Helen Safa.
Antonio Santamaría García. Sin azúcar no hay país: La industria azucarera y la economía cubana (1919–1939). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Universidad de Sevilla and Diputación de Sevilla, 2001. Reviewed by Richard Sicotte.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. Reviewed by Wayne S. Smith.
Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa, eds. Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Reviewed by K. Lynn Stoner.
Linden Lewis, ed. The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003; and James J. Pancrazio. The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. R
Jossianna Arroyo. Travestismos culturales: Literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, 2003. Reviewed by Jorge Duany.
Betsy Maclean, ed. Haydée Santamaría. New York: Ocean Press, 2003; and Mary-Alice Waters, ed. Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956–58. New York: Pathfinder Press, 2003. Reviewed by Tiff
Gabino La Rosa Corzo. Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression. Translated by Mary Todd. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Reviewed by William C. Van Norman Jr.
Matías Montes Huidobro. El teatro cubano durante la República: Cuba detrás del telón. Boulder, Colo.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2004. Reviewed by Emil Volek.
Foro Internacional (special issue on Cuba). July–September 2003, vol. xliii, no. 3 (173). El Centro de Estudios Internacionales de El Colegio de México, 2003. Reviewed by Laurence Whitehead.
Susan J. Fernández. Encumbered Cuba. Capital Market and Revolt, 1878–1895. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Reviewed by Oscar Zanetti Lecuona.
Recent Work in Cuban Studies (Teresa Chapa, bibliography editor)
Contributors