The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-xi

Figures

pp xii-xiii

Contributors

pp xiv-xxvii

Acknowledgments

pp xxviii-xxx

Introduction - Unfinished Histories

pp 1-38

Part I - Literature in the Early Colony

pp 39-64

1 - Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de paciencia and the Unfinished Foundational Story of Cuban Literature

pp 41-51

2 - José Martín Félix de Arrate’s Enlightenment Discourse of Cuban Exceptionalism

pp 52-64

Part II - Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century

pp 65-214

3 - Alexander von Humboldt and the Cultural Invention of Cuba Among Its Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Elite

pp 67-81

4 - Philosophy and Pedagogy in Félix Varela, José de la Luz y Caballero, and Enrique José Varona

pp 82-96

5 - Mercedes Merlin and the Rhetoric of Life Writing, Exile, and Race

pp 97-108

6 - The Lyric Vernacular of Cuban Romanticism

pp 109-125

7 - Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda as Literary Precursor and Transatlantic Intellectual

pp 126-141

8 - Racialized Futures

pp 142-156

9 - Journalism and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture

pp 157-168

10 - José Martí as Hemispheric Visionary

pp 169-184

11 - Julián del Casal and the Other Faces of Cuban Modernismo

pp 185-199

12 - Performance Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Cuban Theater

pp 200-214

Part III - Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic

pp 215-350

13 - The Literary Intellectuals of the Early Cuban Republic

pp 217-229

14 - The Invention of the Black Cuban in the Early Twentieth Century

pp 230-245

15 - The Fluid Expressive Communities of Cuba’s Interwar Avant-Gardes

pp 246-262

16 - Lydia Cabrera and Afro-Caribbean Imaginaries

pp 263-275

17 - The Fictions of New Urban Subjects

pp 276-289

18 - The Esthetics of Dulce María Loynaz

pp 290-303