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Cuban Literature*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Muna Lee*
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.

Extract

“We see generals of thirty, poet-swordsmen spending themselves equally on their battles and their verses,” the Peruvian García Calderón wrote of revolutionary, nineteenth-century Cuba, “indomitable guerrillas, orators brimming with tropical eloquence, passionate pilgrims roaming the Americas to proclaim the miseries of Spanish domination.” Those revolutionary years that burn like an ember in the long history of Cuba glow with equal brilliance in the Cuban literary chronicle. Juan J. Remos y Rubio, indeed, in the three-volume History of Cuban Literature under review, lays such stress upon these years as to make them dim all that came before and all that has come after.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1947

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Footnotes

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Historia de la Literatura Cubana. By Juan J. Remos y Rubio. Prologue by José María Chacón y Calvo. Three Volumes. (Habana, Cardenas y Cia, 1945. $15.00.)

References

* Readers of The Americas will take pleasure in the appreciative mention which Señor Remos makes of Advisory Editor Irene A. Wright’s Historia documentada de San Christobal de la Habana en el siglo XVI, published by the Academy of History of Cuba.