Tag: Cuban literature

Literary Cuba comes to Cambridge. Interview with Vicky Unruh...

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...

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

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

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

Lydia Cabrera and the Dark Rebellions

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

The Forgotten Origins of Cuban Science Fiction

A Gap in Traditional Historiography Talking about José Hernández Artigas and his role as a precursor of Cuban...

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and ‘Dirty Havana Trilogy’: 25 Years...

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, at 73, is no longer the sex-addicted alcoholic with sudden fits of rage who...

The Beginnings of Socialist Realism in Cuban Science Fiction

One of the consequences of the abrupt break in the evolution of Cuban literature that took place...

A Nightmare on Trocadero Street

We are gathered here tonight to celebrate the publication of a book of translations by James Irby...