Table Of ContentNew Directions in Latino American Cultures
A Series Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta and José Quiroga
New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone
by Raquel Z. Rivera
The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901
edited by Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and Michele Rocío Nasser
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities
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An Intellectual History of the Caribbean ct.c
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The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World al fr
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Violence without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South ht
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Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics Co
by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Poblete
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement
edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
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New Concepts in Latino American Cultures
A Series Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta and José Quiroga
Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age
by Enrico Mario Santí
Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place
by Jacqueline Loss
Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women’s
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Telling Ruins in Latin America eri
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New Argentine Film: Other Worlds yrig
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5 Toward a Cuban October 85
Ernesto Menéndez-Conde, translated by Elizabeth Bell
6 Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite 95
Jorge Ferrer, translated by Anna Kushner
7 The Mammoth That Wouldn’t Die 109
Carlos Espinosa Domínguez, translated by Elizabeth Bell
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8 Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident
(of the Cuban Revolution) 119
José Manuel Prieto, translated by Jorge Castillo
Part III The Recalcitrant Ajiaco
9 . . . so, Borscht Doesn’t Mix into the Ajiaco ?:
An Essay of Self-Ethnography on the Young
Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba 133
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Seton Hall University created a forum for these discussions by inviting
some of these book’s contributors to ancillary encounters. The Trust for
Mutual Understanding promoted an initial dialogue among academics
from Cuba, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Central and
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