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"The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporas This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas. Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States. The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts of migration. Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently, Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of diasporic communities and continuities. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities"-- Provided by publisher.

"In this first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos and encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: "Two Wings of a Bird" / Carmen Haydee Rivera and Jorge Duany

Part I. Cuba and Puerto Rico: Historical Perspectives

Passive Puerto Rico and Revolutionary Cuba?: Myths, Realities, and the Optics of History / Lillian Guerra

Nuclearized Wings: The Binary Roads of Cuba and Puerto Rico at the Takeoff of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1963) / Silvia AÌvarez Curbelo

The Repeating Island?: Cuban and Puerto Rican Counterpoints between the Cold War and the Reencounter / Francisco A. Scarano

Local Eyes into Caribbean Rural Life: Anthropological Informants in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Post-World War II Era / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres

The Harlem of the Club Las Dos Antillas: Race, Space, and Politics in Early Antillean New York / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Part II. Puerto Rican and Cuban Literary Expression

Exploding the Limits of Bodies and Islands: The Literary Works of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Legna Rodríguez Iglesias / Monica Simal

Puerto Rico en Areíto: Translation, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, and Other Collaborations among Cuban and Puerto Rican Migrant Intellectuals / Laura Lomas

Psychological and Physical Space in Puerto Rican and Cuban Twentieth-Century Theater / Maida Watson

Hechos and desechos: Environmental Degradation and Violence in Mayra Montero's Tú, la oscuridad / Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín

Caribbean Dialogues by María Zambrano / Madeline Cámara

"The Two Ephemeral Wings of the Angel of Love": Archipelagic Fantasies in the Narrative of Lourdes Casal and Manuel Ramos Otero / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

Part III. Manifestations of Cuban and Puerto Rican Culture

Listening to Our New Possessions: Music and Imperial Writings on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1898-1920s / Hugo R. Viera-Vargas

The Musical Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Latin Music Scene of New York City and Interethnic Collaboration among Puerto Ricans and Cubans / Benjamin Lapidus

Allora and Calzadilla: Noise and the Politics of Sonic Decoloniality / Alan West-Durán

The Narratives and Life Projects of Orientales from Cuba in Puerto Rico and Florida: An Initial Comparative Study / Blanca Ortiz-Torres and Mario A. Rodríguez-Cancel

Becoming Cuba-Rican: A Personal Testimony / Jorge Duany

Puerto Rican literature > History.

Cuban literature > History.

Popular culture > Puerto Rico.

Popular culture > Cuba.

Puerto Rico > History.

Cuba > History.