Essays in Cuban Intellectual History

Rafael Rojas is Professor and Researcher, Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico City.

• Preface * "Otro Gallo Cantaría:" The First Cuban Republicanism * The Moral Frontier: 1898, Discourses at War * Against Homo Cubensis: Fernando Ortiz, Transculturation, and Nationalism * Orígenes and the Poetics of History * Gallery of Cuban Writing * Diaspora and Memory in Cuban Literature * Symbolic Dilemmas of the Cuban Transition

" Essays in Cuban Intellectual History offers ample evidence that Cuban nationalism will remain fertile ground for our deepest intellectual quandaries. In that sense, in its rich array of hope, contradiction and fear, one must welcome the arrival of this book." - Roman de la Campa, A Contra corriente