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Ernest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been devoted to how his life in Cuba influenced his writing. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works corrects this omission by presenting contributions by scholars and journalists from the United States, Russia, Japan, and Cuba, who explore how Hemingway absorbed and wrote from the culture and place around him.

The volume opens with an examination of Hemingway’s place in Cuban history and culture, evaluations of the man and his work, and studies of Hemingway’s life as an American in Cuba. These essays look directly at Hemingway’s Cuban experience, and they range from the academic to the journalistic, allowing different voices to speak and different tones to be heard. The first section includes reflections from Gladys Rodriguez Ferrero, former director of the Museo Finco Vigía, who describes the deep affection Cubans hold for Hemingway; and recollections from the now-adult members of “Gigi’s All Stars,” the boys’ baseball team that Hemingway organized in the 1940s.

In the second part of the collection, Hemingway scholars— among them, Kim Moreland, James Nagel, Ann Putnam, and H. R. Stoneback—employ a variety of critical perspectives to analyze specific works set in Cuba or on its Gulf Stream and written during the years that Hemingway actually lived in Cuba. Also included are a long letter by Richard Armstrong describing the Machado revolution in Cuba and Hemingway’s photographs of fishermen at Cojimar, which provide vivid visual commentary on The Old Man and the Sea.

Appended to the collection are Kelli Larson’s bibliography of scholarly writing on Hemingway’s Cuban works and Ned Quevedo Arnaiz’s sample of Cuban writing on those works. A chronology placing Hemingway’s life in Cuba beside historical events is also provided.

This important volume illuminates Hemingway’s life and work during the Cuban years, and it will appeal to Hemingway fans and scholars alike.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. c
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Larry Grimes
  3. pp. xi-xviii
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  1. Part 1: Cuba
  1. Chapter 1: Hemingway The Man Who Worked In and Enjoyed Cuba
  2. Gladys Rodriguez Ferrero
  3. pp. 1-7
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  1. Chapter 2: Hemingway, Parody or Pastiche?
  2. Jorge Santos Caballero, Translated by Emma Archer, Introduction by Larry Grimes
  3. pp. 8-12
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  1. Chapter 3: The Cuban Revolution
  2. Yuri Paporov, Translated by Keneth Kinnamon, Introduction by Larry Grimes
  3. pp. 13-29
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  1. Chapter 4: An Interview with Gigi’s All-Stars at Ernest Hemingway’s Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, July 6, 2004
  2. David B. Martens
  3. pp. 30-39
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  1. Chapter 5: Mary and Ernest Too Close to See
  2. Albert J. Defazio III
  3. pp. 40-60
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  1. Chapter 6: The Fishing Was Good Too Cuban Writer Claims Torrid Love Affair with Jane Mason Drew Hemingway to Havana
  2. William E. Deibler
  3. pp. 61-71
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  1. Part 2: The Cuban Works To Have and Have Not
  2. pp. 72-74
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  1. Chapter 7: The State of Things in Cuba A Letter to Hemingway
  2. Richard Armstrong, Introduction by Larry Grimes
  3. pp. 75-83
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  1. Chapter 8: Selection from “It is hard for you to tell,” Chapter Three of Cuba y Hemingway en el gran río azul (Cuba and Hemingway on the Great Blue River)
  2. Mary Cruz, Translated by Mary Delpino
  3. pp. 84-101
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  1. Chapter 9: The “Matter of Being Expatriots” Hemingway, Cuba, and Inter-American Literary Study
  2. Scott O. McClintock
  3. pp. 102-122
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  1. Chapter 10: A Shared Palette Hemingway and Winslow Homer, Painters of the Gulf Stream
  2. Charlene M. Murphy
  3. pp. 123-130
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  1. Part 3:The Old Man and the Sea
  1. Chapter 11:“I am not religious, . . . But . . .” The Virgin of El Cobre and Cuban Catholicism a mi propia manera
  2. Alma Derojas
  3. pp. 133-149
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  1. Chapter 12: Hemingway’s Religious Odyssey The Afro-Cuban Connection in Two Stories and The Old Man and the Sea
  2. Larry Grimes
  3. pp. 150-164
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  1. Chapter 13:“You Know the Name Is No Accident” Hemingway and the Matter of Santiago
  2. H. R. Stoneback
  3. pp. 165-179
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  1. Chapter 14: “Papa” and Fidel Cold War, Cuba, and Two Interpretive Communities
  2. Yoichiro Miyamoto
  3. pp. 180-194
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  1. Chapter 15: Into the Terrain of the Bull Hemingway’s “The Undefeated”
  2. Ann Putnam
  3. pp. 194-209
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  1. Part 4: Island in the Stream
  2. pp. 210-212
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  1. Chapter 16: Death by Drowning Trauma Theory and Islands in the Stream
  2. Kim Moreland
  3. pp. 213-228
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  1. Chapter 17: Sea of Plenty The Artist’s Role in Islands in the Stream
  2. Lawrence R. Broer
  3. pp. 229-242
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  1. Chapter 18: Hemingway’s Impressionistic Islands
  2. James Nagel
  3. pp. 243-253
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  1. Chapter 19: The Context of Hemingway’s Personal Art and the Caribbean Subject
  2. Joseph M. Defalco
  3. pp. 254-260
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  1. Part 4: Selected Bibliographies
  1. Chapter 20: Trolling the Deep Waters Hemingway’s Cuban Fiction and the Critics
  2. Kelli A. Larson
  3. pp. 263-326
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  1. Chapter 21: Hemingway His Impact in the Cuban Press Today
  2. Ned Quevedo Arnaiz
  3. pp. 327-354
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  1. Chronology
  2. pp. 355-363
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 364-368
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 369-383
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  1. Back Cover
  2. p. BC
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