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“What a beautiful journey through five hundred years of Cuban history, culture, and politics! The Cuba Reader is a sumptuous medley of poetry, song, speeches, interviews, and vignettes from novels new and old. You’ll hear the voices of santeros and sugar workers, prostitutes and politicos, revolutionaries and reporters, dissidents and dancers. It’s the next best thing to being in Cuba, so sit back with a mojito and enjoy the masterfully guided tour.”—Medea Benjamin, activist and cofounder of Global Exchange
"The Cuba Reader offers a splendid overview of the Cuban experience, past and present, through a dazzling array of points of view. The voices of participants and observers and perspectives on the extraordinary and the commonplace—with imagery conveyed by way of photography and poetry, through the lyric of music and the nuance of the novel—make for a compelling collection of material. The very fullness of its vision makes The Cuba Reader an indispensable book for courses—of every academic discipline—on Cuba.”—Louis A. Pérez, Jr., author of On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
"[A] classic. The editors of this book and their many accomplices deserve nothing but praise for producing the best introduction to Cuba one can possibly find."
(Gavin O'Toole The Latin American Review of Books)
"[A] crash course in Cuban history. If you’re looking for a single (hefty) volume to get you up to speed about the past 500 years of Cuban politics and culture, this is it."
(Julie Schwietert Collazo The Guardian)
"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries. The editors . . . have wisely chosen songs, paintings, photographs, short stories, essays, speeches, government reports, cartoons and newspaper articles that span Cuban history. . . . What The Cuba Reader does extraordinarily well is to reveal the nuances and complexity of the Cuban experience. All shades of politics are here, and they infuse Cuban dance, music, film and religion."
(Susan Fernandez The Miami Herald)
"[T]he editors should be congratulated for their Herculean effort. The reader will be most useful for undergraduate courses where it will provide students with an impressive overview of the Cuban experience over the last five centuries. In fact, anyone interested in obtaining a comprehensive and multifaceted firsthand account of Cuban history will benefit from this book."(John J. Dwyer The Americas)
"This Reader provides a wonderfully eclectic selection of writings from and about Cuba. . . . [A] very useful resource for the teaching of courses relating to Cuba, providing a taster of many aspects of the island's history that should encourage those who dip into it to come away with a more nuanced understanding of an island that has been plagued by caricature."(Jonathan Curry-Machado Journal of Latin American Studies)
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From the Publisher
"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries."--Susan Fernandez, The Miami Herald
From the Back Cover
""The Cuba Reader" offers a splendid overview of the Cuban experience, past and present, through a dazzling array of points of view. The voices of participants and observers and perspectives on the extraordinary and the commonplace--with imagery conveyed by way of photography and poetry, through the lyric of music and the nuance of the novel--make for a compelling collection of material. The very fullness of its vision makes "The Cuba Reader" an indispensable book for courses--of every academic discipline--on Cuba."--Louis A. Perez, Jr., author of "On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture"
About the Author
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Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940 and coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (published by Duke University Press).
Barry Carr is Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico and coeditor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika.
Pamela Maria Smorkaloff is Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University. She is the author of Cuban Writers on and off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction and Readers and Writers in Cuba: A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s–1990s and editor of If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean.
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Series: The Latin America Readers
Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press Books; 1 edition (February 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822331977
ISBN-13: 978-0822331971
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Editorial Reviews
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“What a beautiful journey through five hundred years of Cuban history, culture, and politics! The Cuba Reader is a sumptuous medley of poetry, song, speeches, interviews, and vignettes from novels new and old. You’ll hear the voices of santeros and sugar workers, prostitutes and politicos, revolutionaries and reporters, dissidents and dancers. It’s the next best thing to being in Cuba, so sit back with a mojito and enjoy the masterfully guided tour.”—Medea Benjamin, activist and cofounder of Global Exchange
"The Cuba Reader offers a splendid overview of the Cuban experience, past and present, through a dazzling array of points of view. The voices of participants and observers and perspectives on the extraordinary and the commonplace—with imagery conveyed by way of photography and poetry, through the lyric of music and the nuance of the novel—make for a compelling collection of material. The very fullness of its vision makes The Cuba Reader an indispensable book for courses—of every academic discipline—on Cuba.”—Louis A. Pérez, Jr., author of On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
"[A] classic. The editors of this book and their many accomplices deserve nothing but praise for producing the best introduction to Cuba one can possibly find."
(Gavin O'Toole The Latin American Review of Books)
"[A] crash course in Cuban history. If you’re looking for a single (hefty) volume to get you up to speed about the past 500 years of Cuban politics and culture, this is it."
(Julie Schwietert Collazo The Guardian)
"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries. The editors . . . have wisely chosen songs, paintings, photographs, short stories, essays, speeches, government reports, cartoons and newspaper articles that span Cuban history. . . . What The Cuba Reader does extraordinarily well is to reveal the nuances and complexity of the Cuban experience. All shades of politics are here, and they infuse Cuban dance, music, film and religion."
(Susan Fernandez The Miami Herald)
"[T]he editors should be congratulated for their Herculean effort. The reader will be most useful for undergraduate courses where it will provide students with an impressive overview of the Cuban experience over the last five centuries. In fact, anyone interested in obtaining a comprehensive and multifaceted firsthand account of Cuban history will benefit from this book."(John J. Dwyer The Americas)
"This Reader provides a wonderfully eclectic selection of writings from and about Cuba. . . . [A] very useful resource for the teaching of courses relating to Cuba, providing a taster of many aspects of the island's history that should encourage those who dip into it to come away with a more nuanced understanding of an island that has been plagued by caricature."(Jonathan Curry-Machado Journal of Latin American Studies)
Read less
From the Publisher
"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries."--Susan Fernandez, The Miami Herald
From the Back Cover
""The Cuba Reader" offers a splendid overview of the Cuban experience, past and present, through a dazzling array of points of view. The voices of participants and observers and perspectives on the extraordinary and the commonplace--with imagery conveyed by way of photography and poetry, through the lyric of music and the nuance of the novel--make for a compelling collection of material. The very fullness of its vision makes "The Cuba Reader" an indispensable book for courses--of every academic discipline--on Cuba."--Louis A. Perez, Jr., author of "On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture"
About the Author
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Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940 and coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (published by Duke University Press).
Barry Carr is Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico and coeditor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika.
Pamela Maria Smorkaloff is Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University. She is the author of Cuban Writers on and off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction and Readers and Writers in Cuba: A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s–1990s and editor of If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean.
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Product details
Series: The Latin America Readers
Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press Books; 1 edition (February 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822331977
ISBN-13: 978-0822331971
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues for over twenty-five years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
For more information see https://polaris.salemstate.edu/profile/achomsky.
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Stephanierunsforfun
5.0 out of 5 starsCalling all Cuban ScholarsMarch 18, 2014
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This book is essential if you plan to do serious research on Cuba. It is essentially a compilation of the major documents of great importance written in or on Cuba. It starts with colonial writings (passages from Spanish colonizers) and works its way through time up to and through the Cuban revolution. It contains everything from speeches to journal entries and songs. It is incredibly comprehensive and the summaries at the beginning of each passage are instrumental in guiding the researcher through so much material quickly.
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5.0 out of 5 starsnot a history but a guide to all facets of Cuban lifeFebruary 28, 2014
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This is not a normal history but if you are willing to read an anthology rather than a normal guide, this will give you an excellent description of Cuban life and history. I have read the Peru reader as well and this whole series is excellent. The book is very long and inevitably some things were left out but overall I found this to be extremely thorough. I was disappointed that some of the poems did not have side by side Spanish and English translations but that is a minor quibble. This book includes plenty of Cuban and non-Cuban sources.
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Ann in Duluth
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat overviewDecember 5, 2012
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This was a great overview of the history, culture and politics of Cuba. A huge volume, it contains a handful of pages from a wide variety of articles and sources on each topic -- allowing readers to choose what they want to focus on and what they can pass by. It was a great companion on a recent trip to Cuba and made the trip much more interesting as I felt grounded a bit in the history, without having to read dozens of books.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA wealth of information about Cuban historySeptember 21, 2016
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This contains articles and excerpts from a host of sources. It is fascinating reading.
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B. D. Hellmann
4.0 out of 5 starsImportant objective interestingJuly 4, 2015
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Read this before I visited Cuba and was impressed with all the facts in it. Things nobody tells you.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA journey into the Cuban soul!July 8, 2015
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As the other reviews have already said, The Cuba Reader is a compilation of short stories, poems, newspaper articles etc. interspersed with sections which provide historical background.
This is a good book for people who want to see Cuban history through the eyes of Cubans. It will make you fall in love with the people and their culture.
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Donna D. Conrad
5.0 out of 5 stars... want Cuban history from primary sources this is a good book to haveFebruary 18, 2015
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If you want Cuban history from primary sources this is a good book to have.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCovers select thesis accompanied by primary documentsFebruary 10, 2014
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Allows the reader to use introductory narrative fokr each chapter as a guide as to whether you want, at that time, to read the supporting primary documents.
Content well organized with excellent primary documents allowing the reader to weigh alternative conclusions as compared to more "off-th-street" popular notions.
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Stephanierunsforfun
5.0 out of 5 starsCalling all Cuban ScholarsMarch 18, 2014
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This book is essential if you plan to do serious research on Cuba. It is essentially a compilation of the major documents of great importance written in or on Cuba. It starts with colonial writings (passages from Spanish colonizers) and works its way through time up to and through the Cuban revolution. It contains everything from speeches to journal entries and songs. It is incredibly comprehensive and the summaries at the beginning of each passage are instrumental in guiding the researcher through so much material quickly.
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E Shipp
5.0 out of 5 starsnot a history but a guide to all facets of Cuban lifeFebruary 28, 2014
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This is not a normal history but if you are willing to read an anthology rather than a normal guide, this will give you an excellent description of Cuban life and history. I have read the Peru reader as well and this whole series is excellent. The book is very long and inevitably some things were left out but overall I found this to be extremely thorough. I was disappointed that some of the poems did not have side by side Spanish and English translations but that is a minor quibble. This book includes plenty of Cuban and non-Cuban sources.
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Ann in Duluth
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat overviewDecember 5, 2012
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This was a great overview of the history, culture and politics of Cuba. A huge volume, it contains a handful of pages from a wide variety of articles and sources on each topic -- allowing readers to choose what they want to focus on and what they can pass by. It was a great companion on a recent trip to Cuba and made the trip much more interesting as I felt grounded a bit in the history, without having to read dozens of books.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 starsA wealth of information about Cuban historySeptember 21, 2016
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This contains articles and excerpts from a host of sources. It is fascinating reading.
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B. D. Hellmann
4.0 out of 5 starsImportant objective interestingJuly 4, 2015
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Read this before I visited Cuba and was impressed with all the facts in it. Things nobody tells you.
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Brushman
5.0 out of 5 starsA journey into the Cuban soul!July 8, 2015
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As the other reviews have already said, The Cuba Reader is a compilation of short stories, poems, newspaper articles etc. interspersed with sections which provide historical background.
This is a good book for people who want to see Cuban history through the eyes of Cubans. It will make you fall in love with the people and their culture.
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Donna D. Conrad
5.0 out of 5 stars... want Cuban history from primary sources this is a good book to haveFebruary 18, 2015
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If you want Cuban history from primary sources this is a good book to have.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCovers select thesis accompanied by primary documentsFebruary 10, 2014
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Allows the reader to use introductory narrative fokr each chapter as a guide as to whether you want, at that time, to read the supporting primary documents.
Content well organized with excellent primary documents allowing the reader to weigh alternative conclusions as compared to more "off-th-street" popular notions.
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