Cuba's wild east : a literary geography of oriente / [electronic resource]
Hulme, Peter,author.
Cuba℗'s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism, and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus℗-while including fiction and poetry℗-is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US journalists and novelists as well as by Cuban writers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction -- James J. O'Kelly at Jiguaní (1873) --José Martí at Vega del Jobo (1895) -- Richard Harding Davis in Santiago de Cuba (1897) -- Edward Stratemeyer at Siboney (1898) -- Andrew Summers Rowan in Bayamo (1898) -- Josephine Herbst in Realengo 18 (1935) -- Antonio Núñez Jiménez in Pico Turquino (1945) -- 'Less than human': Guantánamo Bay (2002).
Cuba℗'s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism, and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus℗-while including fiction and poetry℗-is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US journalists and novelists as well as by Cuban writers.
Cuban literature
Nationalism in literature.