TY - BOOK ID - 78145596 TI - Cuba's Wild East PY - 2011 SN - 1781386382 1781388822 1846317177 9781846317170 9781846317484 1846317487 PB - Liverpool Liverpool University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cuban literature KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Havana (Cuba) KW - San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) KW - Gavana (Cuba) KW - Habana (Cuba) KW - La Havana (Cuba) KW - La Habana (Cuba) KW - La Havane (Cuba) KW - Havane (Cuba) KW - Avana (Cuba) KW - In literature. KW - Havanna (Cuba) KW - Cuba KW - 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145596 AB - 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. ER -