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Extending From The Seventeenth To The Twenty-first Century, The Cambridge History Of Cuban Literature Is The First Book In English To Tell The Intricate Story Of Cuban Literary-intellectual Culture From The Seventeenth-century To The Twenty-first Century. This Landmark Book Highlights The Intricacies Of Linguistic And Cultural Translation Embodied In Telling A Story In English About A Body Of Work Expressed Predominantly In Spanish, But Also French, Haitian Kreyoì€l, Angolan Portuguese, And English. Broad In Its Scope, This Book Encompasses Such Major Figures As Goìmez De Avellaneda, Heredia, Plaìcido, Manzano, Villaverde, Martiì, Casal, Carpentier, L. Cabrera, Manìƒach, Loynaz, Pinìƒera, Lezama Lima, And Cabrera Infante, As Well As Theatre And Performance Groups, Film, Post-revolutionary Projects, Post-1989 Special Period Writers, And Literature Of Cuba's Diasporas. It Highlights Four Key Features Weaving Through Cuban Literary History: Its Engagement With International Networks; Its Key Role In Cultural Identity Debates Throughout Latin America; Persistent Debates About Race, Gender, And Class; And The Tropes Of Travel And Movement-voluntary, Exploratory, Enslaved, Migratory, Or Exilic. Introduction: Unfinished Histories / Vicky Unruh And Jacqueline Loss -- Silvestre De Balboa's Espejo De Paciencia And The Unfinished Foundational Story Of Cuban Literature / Raúl Marrero-fente -- José Martín Félix De Arrate's Enlightenment Discourse Of Cuban Exceptionalism / Mariselle Meléndez -- Alexander Von Humboldt And The Cultural Invention Of Cuba Among Its Nineteenth Century Intellectual Elite / Daylet Domínguez -- Philosophy And Pedagogy In Varela, Luz Y Caballero, And Varona / Vicente Medina -- Mercedes Merlin And The Rhetoric Of Life Writing, Exile, And Race / Roberto Ignacio Díaz -- The Lyric Vernacular Of Cuban Romanticism / Rachel Price -- Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda As Literary Precursor And Transatlantic Intellectual / Adriana Méndez Rodenas -- Ra