List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “Two Wings of a Bird”
Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany
Part 1. Cuba and Puerto Rico: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1. Passive Puerto Rico and Revolutionary Cuba? Myths, Realities, and the Optics of History
Lillian Guerra
Chapter 2. Nuclearized Wings: The Binary Roads of Cuba and Puerto Rico at the Takeoff of the Cuban Revolution (1959–1963)
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo
Chapter 3. The Repeating Island? Cuban–Puerto Rican Counterpoints between the Cold War and the Reencounter
Francisco A. Scarano
Chapter 4. Local Eyes into Caribbean Rural Life: Anthropological Informants in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Post–World War II Era
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres
Chapter 5. The Harlem of the Club Las Dos Antillas: Race, Space, and Politics in Early Antillean New York
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Part 2. Puerto Rican and Cuban Literary Expression
Chapter 6. Exploding the Limits of Bodies and Islands: The Literary Works of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Monica Simal
Chapter 7. Puerto Rico en Areíto: Translation, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, and Other Collaborations among Cuban and Puerto Rican Migrant Intellectuals
Laura Lomas
Chapter 8. Psychological and Physical Space in Puerto Rican and Cuban Twentieth-Century Theater
Maida Watson
Chapter 9. Hechos and desechos: Environmental Degradation and Violence in Mayra Montero’s Tú, la oscuridad
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín
Chapter 10. Caribbean Dialogues by María Zambrano
Madeline Cámara
Chapter 11. “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 3. Manifestations of Cuban and Puerto Rican Culture
Chapter 12. Listening to Our New Possessions: Music and Imperial Writings on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1898–1920s
Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Chapter 13. 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
Chapter 14. Allora and Calzadilla: Noise and the Politics of Sonic Decoloniality
Alan West-Durán
Chapter 15. 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
Chapter 16. Becoming Cuba-Rican: A Personal Testimony
Jorge Duany
List of Contributors
Index
