Cuba and the Tempest
Subtitle: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora (Envisioning Cuba)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780807856833
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Padura, Leonardo; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Study & Teaching; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; History: World; Cuba; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Central & South American; Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba; Reference; 20th century; Cuban literature; Exiles' writings, Cuban; History and criticism; Guillermo Cabrera Infante; Leonardo Padura Fuentes; Jose Marti; Fernando Ortiz; Antonio Benitez Rojo; Abilio Estevez; Lino Novas Calvo; Alejo Carpentier; The Odyssey; Homer; William Shakespeare; Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Thomas De Quincey; Lewis Carroll; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce; Edgar Allan Poe; Herman Melville; Ernest Hemingway; Raymond Chandler; J. D. Salinger; Claude Levi-Strauss; Walter Benjamin; Friedrich Nietzsche; Plato; Jacques Derrida; socialism; Zarathustra; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Alfred Hitchcock; Rebecca; Spellbound; Vertigo; Topaz; Pedro Almodovar; Talk to Her; Robert Altman; The Long Goodbye; Rouben Mamoulian; Queen Christina; romantic irony; diaspora; exile; racial relations and sexuality in Cuba; suicide in Cuba; Cuban Revolution; film noir; crime fiction; myths and folktales; potcolonialism /
First sentence: In discussing the seclusion of girls at puberty in The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer attributes the widespread custom to the wish to protect oneself against dangers believed to emanate from menstrual uncleanliness.