Contents
Nota del editor / Alejandro de la Fuente
Dossier 1: Hacia una nueva Constitución
Constitución y constitucionalismo en Cuba: Introducción al dossier y refl exiones / Jorge I. Domínguez
The “Engine Room” of the Constitution (with Some Particular Attention to the Cuban Case) / Roberto Gargarella
¿Es posible ampliar los derechos civiles y políticos en Cuba sin revocar el socialismo? / Rafael Rojas
Una Constitución para Cuba: La necesidad de una nueva constitución: El enfoque técnico y el enfoque político / Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada
El lugar del derecho en el orden político de la reforma económica en Cuba: Entre la república y el reino / Amalia Pérez Martín
La Constitución de 1940: Una reinterpretación / Julio César Guanche
Culture and Society
Fantasy as Identity: Beyond Foundational Narratives in Lourdes Casal / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Jesús Díaz, 1941–2002: The Unintentional Deviationist / Yvon Grenier
La política de educación superior en el mapa de las reformas actuales: Cambios de política y la Política sin cambios / Danay Quintana Nedelcu
Writing the Music of the City in the Early 1930s: Two Poems by Nicolás Guillén / Lorna V. Williams
Haunting Pasts: Ghosts of Exile in the Poetry of Nancy Morejón, Nilda Cepero, and Andrea O’Reilly Herrera / Lauren Reynolds
History
Sabor colonial: Crafting Savory Bodies through Cuban Music and Dance / Pilar Egüez Guevara
Old and New Politics in Cuba: Revisiting Young Eddy Chibás, 1927–1940 / Ilan Ehrlich
En los límites del discurso esclavista: Retórica abolicionista, afectos y sensibilidad en Los esclavos en las colonias españolas de la condesa de Merlin / Daylet Domínguez
Dossier 2: New Approaches to the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease in Cuba
New Directions in the History of Cuban Medicine and Public Health: Introduction to the Dossier / Mariola Espinosa
“An earnest pledge to fight tuberculosis”: Tuberculosis, Nation, and Modernity in Cuba, 1899–1908 / John A. Gutiérrez
“The dangers that surround the child”: Gender, Science, and Infant Mortality in Postindependence Havana / Daniel A. Rodríguez
The “Black Plague” in a Racial Democracy: Tuberculosis, Race, and Citizenship in Republican Cuba, 1925–1945 / Kelly Urban
Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, 2015 / Pedro de Oraá
Primary Sources
Autobiography of a Cuban Businessman in the 1940s and 1950s / Jorge J. Domínguez (with annotations by Jorge I. Domínguez)
“No se sabía dónde estaba la verdad y dónde estaba la mentira” Entrevista a Edith García Buchaca, 30 de abril de 2012. Enrevistada por Abel Sierra Madero / Editada por Lillian Guerra
Book Reviews
History
Tiffany Sippial, Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Reviewed by Bonnie A. Lucero
Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Reviewed by Melanie Newton
Christina Abreu, Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Reviewed by Elizabeth Schwall
Alfred J. López, José Martí: A Revolutionary Life. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Reviewed by Emilio Bejel
Ernesto Chávez Álvarez, Maestro voluntario (Memorias de un maestro rural: Vol. 1), edited by Rolando García Milián. Gainesville, FL: Milián Books, 2014; Ernesto Chávez Álvarez, Maestro rural (Memorias de un maestro rural: Vol. 2), edited by Rolando García
Catherine Murphy, dir., Maestra: Un cantar de gesta. USA, 2012, 33 minutes, color, DVD, Spanish, English subtitles. Reviewed by Luciano Castillo
Alberto Prieto Rozos, Visión íntegra de América. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2012. Reviewed by René Villaboy Zaldivar
Culture and Society
Jorge Duany, ed., Un pueblo disperso: Dimensiones sociales y culturales de la diáspora cubana. Valencia, Spain: Aduana Vieja Editorial, 2014. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fernandez-Guevara
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, ed., Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction. Pittsburgh, PA: Sampsonia Way Magazine, 2014. Reviewed by Walfrido Dorta
Fernando García del Río, La isla de los ingenios. Madrid: Ediciones Península, 2015. Reviewed by Rebecca L. Salois
Duanel Díaz Infante, La revolución congelada. Dialécticas del castrismo. Madrid: Verbum, 2014. Reviewed by Antonio Cardentey Levin
Moshe Morad, Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Reviewed by María Antonia Cabrera
Umi Vaughan, Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. Reviewed by Sarah Town
Maria-Carolina Cambre, The Semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Reviewed by Jennifer Lambe
Contributors
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