153 Index In this index, created by Denise E. Carlson, photographs in the gallery are indicated by italic numbers preceded by the letter g. Afro-Cubans, 6, 49, 52, 61, g6 Agrarian Reform Law, 9–10 Alfonso, Paco, 7 Alhambra Theatre (Havana), 6–7 Allende, Salvador, 74 Appiah, Kwame, 62 areitos (theatrical rituals), 6 Arenas, Reinaldo, 3, 117–18, 119–20. See also Traidor (play, Arenas) Arrufat, Antón: Siete contra Tebas (play, Seven against Thebes), 1–2 arts, the, 2, 20, 23–24. See also plays; theatre; theatre, Cuban assimilation, 29, 89, 114 audiences: Cuban, 18, 41, 50, 54, 55, 85; cultures of, 23, 24, 104; effects on, 46–47, 48, 56; engaging, 17, 40, 62, 75–76, 81, 95, 96, 103, 106–7, 119; post-Revolution, 13, 18, 33; responses from, 34, 52 Bacantes (play, Teatro Buendia production ), 45 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 42 balseros (rafts), 22, 43 bartering, 21, 58, 75, 80. See also trade Bastille, fall of, 5, 49 Bataille, Georges, 36, 135n73 Batista, Fulgencio, 4–5, 8, 9, 126 Bay of Pigs invasion, 10–11 belonging, 89, 97, 98, 99, 100–101, 119–20. See also family; homeland Benitez-Rojo, Antonio, 123 Bhabha, Homi K., 24, 111 black market, 18, 21, 53, 66–67. See also consumer goods, shortages of blockade, U.S. See embargo, U.S. Borges, Jorge Luis, Labyrinths (short stories), 60 Boudet, Rosa Ileana, 34 Brecht, Bertolt, 7 Brene, José Ramón, Santa Camila de La Habana Vieja (play, St. Camille of Old Havana), 12–13 Brezhnev, Leonid, 19 Brook, Peter, film version of Marat/Sade, 34 bufos habaneros (satirical comedies), 6 Callejon Hamel (Havana), g6, g12 capital and capitalism, 20, 28, 122; American , 93, 108; Chilean, 74–75; critiques of, 72, 105; Cuban fight against, 4, 10, 11, 37, 63–64, 91, 116; foreign, 21, 23, 63, 64, 70, 126; globalization of, 59, 62, 65, 78; during Special Period, 70, 71 Capitol Building (Havana), g8 Carlotta Corday (play, Mansur), 30, 34–44, 56–57; Marat/Sade compared to, 34, 35, 39, 40, 43 Carrió, Raquel, 33, 44–45, 57. See also Charenton (play, Carrió and Lauten) Casa de Las Americas, 11, 33, 34 Castro, Fidel, 9, 14, 48, 54, 85, 87; as educated intellectual, 21, 37; future without, 51, 60, 126–27; in Mexico, 5, 8, 67; Moncada rebellion and, 5, 49; relinquishing leadership, 115, 116–17, In dex 154 118–19, 122; Sierra Maestra victory, 9, 49; speeches and uniforms, 37, 51, 65; violence perpetrated by, 35, 122. See also Cuban Revolution of 1959 Castro, Raúl, 5, 17, 20; transition to leadership, 37, 115, 116–17, 122, 123–25, 127–28, g15. See also Cuban Revolution of 1959 Cayo Granma schoolhouse (Santiago de Cuba), g10 censorship, 16, 18, 41; of Arrufat, 1, 2; avoiding, 23–24, 35–36, 44 Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht (Havana ), g16 Charenton (play, Carrió and Lauten), 30, 56–57; Marat/Sade compared to, 44, 48, 55; Teatro Buendia’s production of, 45–56 Chaudhuri, Una: on Carlotta Corday, 40, 43; on Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, 103, 104, 106, 111, 113; on Illuminating Veronica, 89, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 100–101, 105; on Marat/Sade, 38 Chibás, Eduardo, 5 Chile, 74, 75, 77, 78 Cienfuegos, Camilo, 9 Cine Megano, El (Havana), g11 classes, 4, 21, 98; stratifications in, 12, 57, 66. See also working classes Cobija, La (The Refuge, Havana), g2, g4 Cold War, 14, 63, 108 collectivism, 17, 74 colonialism, 4, 6, 16, 49, 61 communism, 7, 11, 22, 74; in Cuba, 4, 10, 12, 14, 16. See also Marxism; Marxism -Leninism; socialism Consejo Nacional de Cultura (National Council for Culture), 12 constitutions: of 1940, 12; of 1976, 16–17 consumer goods: distribution of, 17; shortages of, 3, 22, 58, 66, 79, 81. See also black market consumerism, 63–64, 81; U.S., 8, 79, 93, 94, 108 Corazzo, Nina, 37, 41 Corday, Charlotte: Charenton’s depiction of, 48, 52, 53, 54; execution of, 36, 37; murder of Marat by, 32, 34–35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 49; Weiss’s depiction of, 34, 39, 42, 53. See also Carlotta Corday (play, Mansur); Marat/Sade (play, Weiss) Corrieri, Sergio, 17 corruption, 5, 8, 11, 20 Covarrubias, Francisco, 6 crime, 5, 8, 22, 125 Cruz, Nilo, 3, 88, 101. See also Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (play, Cruz) Cuba: contemporary, 30, 41, 50–51, 74, 102, 106, 110, 122; dependence of, on Soviet Union, 14–15, 18–19; economic deterioration of, 22–23...