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 Cuba: A BookList

Compiled by Herbert B. Rogers

General Information Department / Enoch Pratt Free Library /State Library

400 Cathedral Street / Baltimore, MD 21201

 

 

Books on Cuba

 

Barnet, Miguel, ed. The Autobiography of a Slave. New York: Pantheon Books, 1968.

Behar, Ruth. Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guarde. Matanzas: Ediciones Vigia, 2001.

Behar, Ruth. Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Brandon, George. Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963.

 

Bunck, Julie. Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

 

Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of this World. (translated by Harriet de Onis). New York: Knopf, 1957.

 

Carpentier, Alejo. The Lost Steps. (translated by Harriet de Onis). New York: Knopf, 1967.

Castillo Bueno, Mario de los Reyes. Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

 

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, ed. Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1999.

 

De la Campa, Roman. Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation. New York: Verso, 2000.

 

Fernandez Retamar, Robert. Caliban and Other Essays. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

 

Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Keeble, Alexandra. In the Spirit of Wandering Teachers: Cuban Literacy Campaign. New York/Havana: Ocean Press, 1978.

 

Kozol, Jonathan. Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban School. New York: Delacorte Press, 1978.

 

Lindsey, Arturo, ed. Santeria Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin America Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

 

Le Bartolo, Giuseppe. Santiago de Cuba: Teatro en la calle. Havana: Editorial Jose Marti, 1994.

 

Lockwood, Lee. Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

 

long, p.w., etal. Cuba is a State of Mind: The Spiritual Traveler. Blue Ocean Press, 2006.

 

Lorenzetto, Anna and Karel Neys. Methods and Means Utilized in Cuba to Eliminate Illiteracy. Havana: Cuban National Commissions for UNESCO, 1965.

 

Luis, William. Culture and Customs of Cuba. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2000.

 

Marquez, Robert, ed and trans. Patria o Muerte! The Great Zoo and Other Poems by Nicolas Guillen. Havana: Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1973

 

Marquez, Robert,  and David A. McMurrays, ed and trans. Man-making Words; Selected Poems of Nicholas Guillen. Havana: Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1973.

 

Murphy, Joseph: Santeria: An African Religion in America. Boston: Beacon, 1988.

 

Perez Sarduy, Pedro and Jean Stubbs, eds. Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity on Contemporary Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

 

Perez Sarduy, Pedro and Jean Stubbs, eds. Afro-Cuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics, and Culture. New York: Ocean Press, 1994.

 

Rayan, Alan, ed. The Reader's Companion to Cuba. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

 

Rosendahl, Mona. Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

 

Smart, Ian. Nicolas Guillen: Popular Poet of the Caribbean. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.

 

Thompson, Robert Ferris. Flash of the Spirit: Africa and Afroamerican Art and Philosophy. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.

 

Vega, Marta Moreno. The Altar of My Soul: The Living Tradition of Santeria. New York: One World, 2000.

 

Weaver, Kathleen, trans. Where the Island Sleeps like a Wing: Selected Poetry by Nancy Morejon. San Francisco, CA: Black Scholar Press, 1985.

 

Wolf, Bernard. Cuba: After the Revolution. New York: Dutton, 1999.

 

 

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