Cuban Studies, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Lynne Rienner hardcover in dust jacket, 1998 first edition/1st printing; unread ; inscription on front endpaper SIGNED by Jim Blight in the year of publication else unmarked, scratch on rear jacket panel else Fine/Fine. Seven page photocopy of 11/16/97 Herald article about this book laid in. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. ambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature I. Volume is bound in black cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Inscription by Cuban-American scholar and writer Gustavo Perez Firmat (b. 1949) appears on front flyleaf and reads "Para Jose, / who knows my condition / (our condition?), / con la amistad incondicional de, / Gustavo." viii/185 pages. "The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the "criollistas" has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish-American literature. This indebtedness does not imply subservience; rather, the New Worlds cultural and literary autonomy lies in the distinctive ways in which it assimilated its cultural inheritance. Professor Perez Firmat explores this process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings of both literary and non-literary works by Juan Marinello, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolas Guillen, Alejo Carpentier and others, dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nations history. Using a critical vocabulary derived from these works, he argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that "cubania" emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.". Signed by Author(s).