Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States

by Rodrigo Lazo

Book Overview

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States.

Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855944
• ISBN13: 9780807855942
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.3"