Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy examines the island's still stagnant sectors and market-driven changes under way as the country takes its early steps toward a more dynamic growth model. Richard E. Feinberg, a longtime observer who has been at the forefront of a…
"Ninety miles across the straits of Florida, a new Cuban revolution is stirring. This time, instead of guerrillas marching down the streets of Havana, it is the global economy that will upend Cuba. As the country's once solidly socialist economy opens further to the world, what …
The revolution from within: Cuba, 1959-1980
"In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American countries with divergent economic systems: Chile (a market economy), Cuba (Socialist), and Costa Rica (mixed). He examines their economic and social policies, shows how these policie…
"In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American countries with divergent economic systems: Chile (a market economy), Cuba (Socialist), and Costa Rica (mixed). He examines their economic and social policies, shows how these policie…
Se realiza un estudio de la entonación y del acento de cinco variedades del español: canario, cubano, venezolano, colombiano y texano de San Antonio. Los resultados son novedosos porque muestran las relaciones de proximidad y distancia prosódica desde tres perspectivas: la del e…
Se realiza un estudio de la entonación y del acento de cinco variedades del español: canario, cubano, venezolano, colombiano y texano de San Antonio. Los resultados son novedosos porque muestran las relaciones de proximidad y distancia prosódica desde tres perspectivas: la del e…
Introduction: Criticism from within -- Symptomologies of the state -- Paranoid readings and ambivalent allegories -- Faith without Fidel -- Staying and suspicion -- Montage in the parenthesis -- Coda: 'Cuba está de moda'.
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written by Cubans in the more than six decades since 1944. Presented in a Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets. The translations, alm…
Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautif…
"This study takes a chronological approach that traces the transformation of the black woman from written subject to writing subject, within the respective national traditions. The place of women of African descent in these traditions, generally constructed around a number of ne…
"This study takes a chronological approach that traces the transformation of the black woman from written subject to writing subject, within the respective national traditions. The place of women of African descent in these traditions, generally constructed around a number of ne…