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Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico

Book by Persephone Braham; University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Subjects:

Cuban Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Detective And Mystery Stories, Cuban--History And Criticism, Detective And Mystery Stories, Mexican--History And Criticism, Mexican Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Cuba, Politics And Literature--Mexico

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Spys Fate (2002). Their Cuban noir collection was founded...English, but the author lives in Cuba. An updated answer to Luis...States consumerism and Miami Cuban cul- ture, but he balances...that faces apo- litical Cubans on the island. As the title...protagonist is an outcast in Cuban society: a frustrated English...absent human beings.6 In Cuba, all relationships are politicized...
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Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States

Book by Rodrigo Lazo; University of North Carolina Press, 2005

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Authors, Cuban--United States--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Cuba--History--1810-1899, Cuba--Relations--United States, Cuban Newspapers--United States--History--19th Century, Cubans--United States--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Cubans--United States--Politics And Government--19th Century, Exiles--United States--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Filibusters--Cuba--History--19th Century, United States--Relations--Cuba

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Athe- naeum, iz7-z8; and Cuban indepen- dence, 194; in...Orales sobre la Historia de Cuba, 3, I8o- 81 Santo Domingo...A Series of Articles on the Cuban Question, 208 (n. 56) Serrano...151-52,158 Slavery: in Cuba, 4, 7, 8, II, 14, 35...filibustering, 14, 25, 144; in fiction, I?, IqI, I6q-67, I77...
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Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology

Book by Delia Poey, Virgil Suárez; Arte Publico Press, 1996

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American Literature--Cuban American Authors, Cuba--Literary Collections, Cuban Americans--Literary Collections

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...himself is a prime example of the Cuban penchant for rhetoric. This...and family, which make up Cuban-American culture and infuse its literature with life. The poets, fiction writers, dramatists and essayists...Prida and Oscar Hijuelos. As Cuban-Americans, they share a...
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The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution

Book by Eduardo Sáenz Rovner, Russ Davidson; University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Subjects:

Cuba--Foreign Relations--United States, Drug Traffic--Cuba--History--20th Century, Gambling--Cuba--History--20th Century, Organized Crime--Cuba--History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Relations--Cuba

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Cuba, three groups Cuban whites, Spanish immigrants...networks through which to supply Cubans with cocaine and heroin...very much information about Cuba in particular, where events...71 Finally, the scholarly literature makes only limited reference...underscores the important role of Cuban drug traffickers after 1960...
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Problems of the New Cuba: Report of the Commission on Cuban Affairs

Book by Raymond Leslie Buell, Frank Whitson Fetter, Prank Dunstone Graham, Ernest Gruening, Helen Hall, Leland Hamilton Jenks, Wilson George Smillie, Charles A. Thomson, Lester MacLean Wilson, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, Carle Clark Zimmerman; Foreign Policy Association, Incorporated, 1935

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Cuba--Economic Conditions--1918-, Cuba--Social Conditions, Finance--Cuba

Collections: History, Entire Library

...directorate, and Communist influence is evident both in much of the literature and in the actual policies of the Confederation. But what is the status of the party itself? Communist influence entered Cuba shorty after the Russian revolution, and in 1920 a labor...the Socialist Soviet Republic." But not until 1925 was the Cuban Communist party organized, Julio Antonio Mella being its...

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Journal Articles on: (cuba or cuban) and (literature or fiction)

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Displacements and Autobiography in Cuban-American Fiction

Journal article by Isabel Alvarez-Borland; World Literature Today, Vol. 68, 1994

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Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...victimized by their men; as Cubans, they have not been served...Del Pino. When Pilar visits Cuba, Celia will give them to...be different from the Miami Cubans but somehow does not achieve...belonging in the U.S. or in Cuba. Medina, on the other hand, wants to preserve Cuban culture and its traditions...that "multicultural works of literature are multicultural not only...
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The Role of Music in the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Culture

Journal article by Antonio Benétez-Rojo; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 29, 1998

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Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...crucial importance: Fernando Ortizs Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar , recently...and Alejo Carpentiers La mesica en Cuba . In the former, Ortiz introduced his...with which he explained the formation of Cuban culture as the shared achievement of...now call Latin Jazz. Meanwhile, in Cuba, the regulations that prohibited the observance of Afro-Cuban rituals were going unenforced. In Havana...
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Mode, Melody, and Harmony in Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa to Cuba

Journal article by Peter Manuel, Orlando Fiol; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 27, 2007

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Afro-Cubanism--Social aspects, Folk music--Social aspects

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...renditions of this song by revered Cuban ocha lead singer Lazaro Ros...see, e.g., Afro-Cuba: A Musical Anthology, track...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Afro-Cubans, having been exposed variously...accompanied by bata drums in Cuba are not associated with the...sources, such as hunters oral literature, Shango pipe songs, Egungun oral literature, and other regional genres...also reflected in the Afro-Cuban practice of stringing songs...
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In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

Journal article by Anne Foltz; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 21, 2001

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Books--Reviews, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Shepherd by Anne Foltz Ana Menendez. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Grove, 2001...captures the intense emotions experienced by Cubans, Americans, and all those caught in...temporary political and economic situation in Cuba has evolved into heartbreaking tests...pride, dignity, and family cherished by Cubans regardless of what city they call home. With Castros hold on Cuba coming to what has seemed for many to...
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The Sounds of Silence: Remembering and Creating in Margarita Engle's "Singing to Cuba"

Journal article by Gisele M. Requena; MELUS, Vol. 23, 1998

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Cuban Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Engle, Margarita--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Singing to Cuba (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Thus, Singing to Cuba tells the story of Cubans in exile and Cubans...in her work on Cuban-American literature. Drawing from...novel. Singing to Cuba is clearly both...appropriate for Cuban-American authors...Autobiography in Cuban-American Fiction." World Literature Today 68 (1994...Ethnic American Literatures. Ed. Amritjit...Margarita. Singing to Cuba. Houston: Arte...

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Magazine Articles on: (cuba or cuban) and (literature or fiction)

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Unmasking Lesbian Cuba: Exiled Cuban Novelist Zoe Valdes Talks about Dear First Love, Her Tough Novel of Passionate Women in Castro's Cuba

Magazine article by Kera Bolonik; The Advocate, October 15, 2002

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...crimes" that landed gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in jail. "When I lived in Cuba," she tells me, "I didnt...tremendous disservice to Cuban culture. For reading Valdess fiction is like feeling the pulse of Cuba: We encounter a Havana...
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Lessons from Cuba

Magazine article by Marc A. Olshan; The Humanist, Vol. 58, May-June 1998

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Cuba--Political aspects, Cubans--Behavior

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Lessons from Cuba. by Marc A. Olshan...Soviet backers, Cuba confounds the world...consumption imposed on Cubans, some observers...soundness. Others see Cuban policies as a model...subscribes to the fiction that the driver...official economy of Cuba. For example...has helped boost Cuban tourism to the nations...source of dollars for Cubans is jobs in the tourist...
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Tongue-Tied: A Contemporary Cuban Art Show Is a Protracted Howl of Protest against Unfreedom, Writes Michael Glover

Magazine article by Michael Glover; New Statesman, Vol. 137, February 4, 2008

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Art, Cuban--Exhibitions, Cuban art--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions

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...Tied: A Contemporary Cuban Art Show Is a Protracted...communism fell, samizdat literature possessed a raw, pent...similar still happening in Cuba?" I ask myself as...exhibition of work by six Cuban artists who live and...show lacks humour. The Cubans still laugh a lot...I ask the veteran Cuban co-curator of the...deal of unfreedom in Cuba," Mosquera tells me...
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Miracle Marketer: Mark Cuban

Magazine article by Kristin Todd; Baylor Business Review, Vol. 24, Spring 2006

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Cuban, Mark, Dallas Mavericks, Entrepreneurs, Personal profiles, Professional basketball, Sports marketing, United States

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...use it." "The edge" that Cuban references is his way of describing...hard are all constituents of Cubans edge. "I could take the time to read a fiction book, but I dont," Cuban said. "I would rather read...me money." THE BIG PICTURE Cubans newest project is the marketing...
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As the Revolution Fades, Cubans Struggle to Survive

Magazine article by Stephen Brookes; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, June 13, 1994

Subjects:

Castro, Fidel--Economic policy, Cuba--Economic aspects, Havana, Cuba--Social aspects, Prostitution--Cuba, Socialism--Economic aspects

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...situation." For ordinary Cubans, survival depends on how...offering two packs of cheap Cuban cigarettes for 25 cents each...expensive to the vast majority of Cubans, a number of tiny restaurants...first thing a visitor to Cuba sees is a huge green Benetton...about the rules as most other Cubans. Its illegal, for example...fo you." But to many in Cuba, the crackdown is another...distributing anti-castro literature and now is waiting permission...

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Newspaper Articles on: (cuba or cuban) and (literature or fiction)

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URBAN COWBOY FIRES A BLANK; the Master of Crime Fiction Is Back but CHRIS BRAY Finds This Cuban Adventure Not Up to the High Standards He's Set Himself; CUBA LIBRE by Elmore Leonard Viking Pounds 16.99 343pp

Newspaper article by Chris Bray; The Mirror (London, England), June 19, 1998

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Cuba

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...BLANK; the Master of Crime Fiction Is Back but CHRIS BRAY Finds This Cuban Adventure Not Up to the High Standards Hes Set Himself; CUBA LIBRE by Elmore Leonard Viking...in turn-of-the- century Cuba on the eve of the Spanish...banged up in some poisonous Cuban prison. Shortly after, Charlie...
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Lawmakers with Cuban Ties Try to Raise Heat on Castro

Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, April 24, 1998

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Castro, Fidel, Cuba

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...for U.S. assistance to the Cuban opposition. He specifically...airplanes were shot down by Cuban military MiGs, killing four...dedicated to smuggling into Cuba fax machines, photocopiers, computers, and Cuban and other anti-communist literature. Like President Reagans covert...
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Washington Ballet Plans Trip to Cuban Dance Festival

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 3, 2000

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Cuba

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...American. The family left Cuba before Mr. Webre was born...many family stories of life in Cuba," he says. Mr. Webre wrote...dubbed "Dialogues in Dance: Cuba 2000." The highlight of the...American choreographers and their Cuban counterparts. * Visits by...Introductions to Cuban music, literature, visual arts, Afro-Cuban...
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Cuba Searched Diplomatic Pouch, Won U.S. Apology: State Department Failed to Protest Violation of Protocol

Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, March 21, 1997

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Cuba, Freedom House

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Congressional Task Force on Cuba, he refused to deny...secretive. "Yes, the Cubans messed with one of our...said David Evans, Cuba program officer at the...pilfered on entry into Cuba. Cuban officials discovered the "subversive" literature and filed a protest...comment yesterday. "The Cubans feel so arrogant and...
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Holiday '98: Havana Good Time; IT'S A MATTER OF COURSE IN CUBA

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 26, 1998

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Cuba

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...masses. Many ordinary Cubans, beset by food rationing...slog which is everyday Cuban life. People who know...youll never meet typical Cubans in Varadero. And theyre...meet very untypical Cubans - doctors, lawyers...lecturer in English literature at Havana University...Italian and German. "In Cuba, education is everything...have barely dented the Cuban males machismo. "Is...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (cuba or cuban) and (literature or fiction)

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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Anthology of Latin American Folklore in Literature (1961); W. K. Jones, ed., Spanish American Literature in Translation: A Selection of Poetry, Fiction and Drama Since 1888 (1963); A...A New History of Spanish American Fiction (1972); D. Gallagher, ed., Modern Latin American Literature (1973) M. Forster, ed., Tradition...
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Mexico , Country, North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...architecture , and Spanish American literature ). Economy From the mid...The conquest was begun from Cuba in 1519 by Hernan Cortes...diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba, but it supported the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962...
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Hemingway, Ernest

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in World War II and then settled in Cuba in 1945. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After his expulsion from Cuba by the Castro regime, he moved to Idaho...by shooting himself. Work Hemingways fiction usually focuses on people living essential...celebrates the indomitable courage of an aged Cuban fisherman. Among Hemingways other works...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Russian history were extolled in literature (e.g., in works by Aleksey...and economic systems. The Cuban Missile Crisis In Oct., 1962...presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba . The United States demanded...a Nobel Prize winner for Literature who was forced to leave the...
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MartÍ, JosÉ

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...JOSE hosa marte , 1853 95, Cuban essayist, poet, and patriot, leader of the Cuban struggle for independence...most 19th-century Spanish literature made him a precursor of the...dedication to the cause of Cuban independence. At the age...

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