Book Launch- Handbook on Cuban History

Book Launch Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change
Thursday, July 10, 2014, 4 PM The Graduate Center, Skylight Room 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY

This handbook explores key themes in the current debate about Cuba’s contemporary cultural and historical dynamics. Leading academics from Cuba, the United States, and Europe bring to light significant revisions of the artistic and literary canon and the historical archive, and they reconsider often neglected subjects and dynamics in historiography as well as contemporary affairs. The book includes new studies on contentious mobilization, leftist activism, and youth organizations in the pre-revolutionary republic. Current analyses include the relation between the Cuban state and intellectuals; institutional legitimation processes; the formation and reconstruction of national identity discourses; and new framings of gender, race, and sexual orientation. The book illuminates the growing salience of social issues and changes in music, literature, cinema, and theater, thus fostering a fuller understanding of historical and current social dynamics of a Cuba in transformation today. Rafael Rojas, Princeton University Global Scholar Ana Maria Hernández, LaGuardia Community College Raúl Rubio, John Jay College, CUNY Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies Araceli Tinajero, The City College of New York and Graduate Center

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