An excerpt from Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo’s essay “The Cuban Revolution as a Dream of the Diaspora” explores the brilliance, magic, and heartbreak in the dreams of exiled writers.
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“Castro-ism or no Castro-ism. To censor or not to censor. That is the key Cuban question.”
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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Israel Centeno dissects “nueva trova” music and analyzes its purposeful construction to infuse the Cuban revolution with a soundtrack all its own.
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In this week’s column, Cuban author Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo suggests that the best way to fight censorship in Cuba is to bring it out of the shadows and calling for the creation of an Official Censor.
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Israel Centeno writes to Fidel Castro about how he has outlived his counterparts and is seemingly unchanged from when he first took power in Cuba.
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