Essays in Cuban intellectual history
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Essays in Cuban intellectual history
（New concepts in Latino American cultures）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Available at 2 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [177]-189
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of Jose Marti, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Origenes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.
Table of Contents
Preface * "Otro Gallo Cantaria:" The First Cuban Republicanism * The Moral Frontier: 1898, Discourses at War * Against Homo Cubensis: Fernando Ortiz, Transculturation, and Nationalism * Origenes and the Poetics of History * Gallery of Cuban Writing * Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature * Symbolic Dilemmas of the Cuban Transition
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