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Literary Cuba comes to Cambridge. Interview with Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss

Who can still speak of the island, who still has the privilege of gnosis intact? From that...

Cuban Science Fiction in the 1960s: Arango, Collazo and Herrero

Defining the specificity of science fiction produced in Latin America has been a topic that has sparked...

An Interview with Armando Lucas Correa, ‘New York Times’ Bestselling Author

Even for those of us who know him, the professional life of Armando Lucas Correa seems as...

Ireti Bookstore, the First Bookstore for Afro-descendants in Cuba. An Interview with Its Founder and Director

Whenever Katiuska Govin Zambrana—who insists on being called Kata—went to visit private or state-owned bookstores in Havana,...

Cuban Science Fiction of the 1990s: Between Provocation and Change

The temporal remoteness, the lack of rigorous historical research and the little diffusion that Cuban science fiction...

The Word as Signal in Roberto Echavarren’s Writing

In Roberto Echavarren’s writing, reflection on language is given, as Julio Ortega pointed out regarding José Lezama...

Lydia Cabrera and the Dark Rebellions

Lydia Cabrera was part of the Africanist movement almost since its origins, and true to the excitement...

Epistle to Any Student of Our Time in Defense of the Western Canon

To Harold Bloom and Isaías Lerner, In memoriam. I am human, and I think nothing human is alien...