London Metropolitan University Research Institutes
 

The International Journal of Cuban Studies

(Online) ISSN 1756-347X

Books received

From Fidel's ethics to Hitler's man in Havana, through photography, literature and philosophical analysis, Cuba continues to capture the imagination.


Fidel's Ethics of Violence. The moral dimension of the political thought of Fidel Castro.

Dayan Jayatilleka, London: Pluto Press, 2007. 225pp.
www.plutobooks.com

The Guantánomo Files. The stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison. Andy Worthington, London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007. 338pp.

Cuba: The Billboards.
Harjan Bos (text) and Henk van den Leeden (photographs), 2008. $34.
www.Lulu.com

The Poet from Liverpool and other Cuban Poems.
Marino Wilson Jay, translated by Joe Pereira, London: Mango Publishing, 2007. 160pp. £10.99.
www.mangoprint.com

One Island, Many Voices. Conversations with Cuban-American Writers.
Eduardo R. del Río, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 2008. 159pp.
www.uapress.arizona.edu

The Portable Island: Cubans at Home and Abroad.
Behar, Ruth & Lucia M. Suarez (eds), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Cuba on the Edge. Short Stories from the Island.
Edited by Mary G. Berg, Pamela Carmell & Anne Fountain, Nottingham UK: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2008. 238pp. £11.99 / $22 / €18.

Closed for Repairs.

Short stories by Nancy Alonso, translated by Anne Fountain, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 2007. 89pp. $13.95.
www.curbstone.org

Hitler's Man in Havana. Heinz Lüning and Nazi espionage in Latin America.
Thomas D. Schoonover with a foreword by Louis A. Pérez Jr., The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 218pp. $ 29.95.
www.kentuckypress.com

Cuba in the American Imagination. Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos.
Louis A Perez Jr., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 333pp including much visual material, especially cartoons.
http://uncpress.unc.edu

book cover photo Louis Perez Jr






 

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