Cuban studies is a highly dynamic field shaped by the country's distinctive political and economic circumstances. Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riobo offer an up-to-date and comprehensive survey offering the latest research available from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives. The Handbook of Contemporary Cuba brings contributions from leading scholars from the United States, Cuba, Europe, and other world regions and introduces the reader to the key literature in the field in relation to rapidly changing events on the island and in global political and economic affairs. It also addresses timely developments in Cuban civil society and human rights. The guide also presents economic models and forecasts as well as analyses of the recent, pivotal Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. For students, scholars, and experts in government, it is a vital addition to any collection on Latin American studies or global politics.

Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic theories of the archive as both repository and danger, drawing from an array of sources both within and outside the Hispanic literary tradition: from Borges, Foucault, Arrom, Derrida, Gonzalez Echevarria, and Guillory to digital media and biotechnology. This book also applies theories of cultural contamination (Maria Lugones) and symbolic capital (Pierre Bourdieu) to the novels of Puig and Sarduy to explore the representation of marginal cultures within a body of literature that previously altered or elided these subaltern cultures from the tradition. Through close readings and critical theoretical applications, this book demonstrates how archival fiction continues to be one of the most popular strategies among Latin American novelists and, most importantly, how they have successfully managed to find new ways to inscribe their alternative fictions within this tradition. Puig's and Sarduy's novels reproduce discourses-popular culture and the mass media-that lack prestige within the traditional archive. These discourses mirror realities of marginal groups-gay people, children, the poor, the illiterate, women, and racial minorities. Their cultural variants, sub-versions of hegemonic masterstories, are endowed with truth-bearing power for them, but were previously left out of the archive as legitimate novelistic models. To date, this is the only study of contemporary Latin American fiction that puts current theories of the archive-especially that of Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria-to practice in such a systematic way. Riobo's analysis of how Puig and Sarduy reformulate the Latin American canon is both a necessary complement of Gonzalez Echevarria's work and an intelligent answer to the first of his projected masterstories. Riobo's multidisciplinary approach

Cuban studies is a highly dynamic field shaped by the country s distinctive political and economic circumstances. "The Handbook of Contemporary Cuba" is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey offering the latest research available from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives. The "Handbook" offers contributions from leading scholars from the United States, Cuba, Europe, and other world regions. The "Handbook s" general introduction and its section introductions survey the key literature in the field in relation to rapidly changing events on the island and in global political and economic affairs. It also addresses timely developments in civil society, including human rights. The "Handbook" presents economic models and forecasts as well as analyses of the recent, pivotal Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. For students, scholars, and experts in government, "The Handbook of Contemporary Cuba" is vital to any collection on Latin American studies or global politics."

The essays included in Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa celebrate Mario Vargas Llosa's visits to the City College of New York, the creation of the Catedra Vargas Llosa in his honor, and the interests of the Peruvian author in reading and books. This volume contains previously unpublished material by Vargas Llosa himself, as well as by novelists and literary critics associated with the Catedra. This collection offers readers an opportunity to learn about Vargas Llosa's body of work through multiple perspectives: his own and those of eminent fiction writers and important literary critics. The book offers significant analysis and rich conversation that bring to life many of the Nobel Laureate's characters and provide insights into his writing process and imagination. As the last surviving member of the original group of writers of the Latin American Boom-which included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortazar-Vargas Llosa endures as a literary icon because his fiction has remained fresh and innovative. His prolific works span many different themes and subgenres. A combination of literary analyses and anecdotal contributions in this volume reveal the little-known human and intellectual dimensions of Vargas Llosa the writer and Vargas Llosa the man.

Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization versus barbary," which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create a homogenous society, Carlos Riobo traces the various versions of colonial captivity legends. He argues convincingly that the historical conditions of the colonial period created an ethnic hybridity-a mestizo or culturally mixed identity-that went against the state compulsion for a racially pure identity. This mestizaje was signified not only in Argentina's literature but also in its art, and Riobo thus analyzes colonial paintings as well as texts. Caught between the Lines focuses on borders and mestizaje (both biological and cultural) as they relate to captives: specifically, how captives have been used to create a national image of Argentina that relies on a logic of separation to justify concepts of national purity and to deny transculturation.

La sintaxis del espanol proporcionara a los estudiantes universitarios de gramatica espanola, asi como a aquellos cuya concentracion es el espanol, una fundacion solida para los estudios mas avanzados, como un Master o un Doctorado, a traves de un acercamiento directo. Este libro tambien es fundamental para los estudiantes que se especializan en Pedagogia, sobre todo en el campo de la Escuela Secundaria. Finalmente, y para aquellos que no estan en una carrera docente, este texto representa una fuente confiable para sus estudios de la lengua espanola. El objetivo principal de esta edicion es que el libro sea mas accesible para los estudiantes. Para eso hemos destacado las principales dificultades que enfrentan cuando estudian el idioma espanol. Para orientarlos mejor, comenzamos con un "Capitulo preliminar I" sobre los signos diacriticos o los acentos escritos, por lo general, material particularmente dificil para los estudiantes. Ampliamos el "Capitulo preliminar II" agregando explicaciones mas detalladas de todas las diferentes variantes que ocurren en el idioma espanol, como un estudio de cognados en espanol e ingles. Mejoramos todos los capitulos con explicaciones gramaticales mas comprensibles. Tambien agregamos ejercicios nuevos y mas cortos a todos los capitulos. Ademas, anadimos una seccion, "Resumen del capitulo", al final de cada uno que sintetiza el material estudiado. Tambien incluimos en cada uno un "Repaso practico final" que reune las partes mas importantes para que los estudiantes puedan ampliar sus conocimientos de una manera mas facil. Finalmente, tambien agregamos una composicion a cada capitulo. El libro concluye con tres Autoexamenes, uno cada cuatro capitulos y un Apendice sobre la morfologia del sistema verbal espanol.

La estructura del espanol es un repaso integro del espanol para estudiantes a nivel universitario. Ha sido concebido para estudiantes de herencia de habla hispana que no han recibido instruccion formal. Este texto tanto se puede usar en un nivel basico como a nivel intermedio, porque ha sido aumentado, con nuevas lecturas, nuevos ejercicios y un lenguaje mas inclusivo. Sus 15 capitulos han sido corregidos y modificados con vistas hacia un mejor y mas facil entendimiento del material, teniendo en cuenta la poblacion estudiantil para la que ha sido concebido. Es por esto que cada capitulo se presenta con minimas, pero precisas, explicaciones. Ademas de abarcar temas especificos de gramatica, este libro tambien incluye areas clave en el uso de consonantes o en la confusion entre ciertos pares de palabras y frases que suenan de forma muy parecida pero se escriben de modo muy distinto y no tienen el mismo significado. Se ha resaltado el estudio de cognados espanol/ingles ayudando asi a que el/la estudiante mejore la escritura de esas palabras. Se han incluido ejercicios adicionales en los que el/la estudiante puede poner a prueba su conocimiento de las reglas ortograficas. Este libro rinde mejores resultados cuando se emplea en cursos secuenciales a nivel de universidad y elimina la necesidad de comprar un libro de lectura adicional. Los/las estudiantes invierten en un libro de texto que integra en un solo volumen material adecuado y de calidad que provee una base firme para una sub-especializacion o para una carrera en espanol.