Tag Archives: Key West
Hemingway’s Four Wives
June 27, 2012 Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Matha Gellhorn, Mary Welsh — I sometimes think of them as punctuation marks to the writing. And yet a good chunk of world history seems written into these marriages. Hadley was in Paris … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Caribbean literature, Cities, Cuba, Global South, Latin America, museums, Nobel Prize, Spanish, Twentieth century literature, world literature
Tagged Battle of Ebro, Chinese Revolution, Collier's Magazine, Cuba, Fascists, Finca Vigia, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Guardian, Harley Richardson, Havana, Hemingway, Key West, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Welsh, Paris, Pauline Pfeiffer, Republicans, Siege of Madrid, Spain, Spanish Civil War, The Face of War, The Old Man and the Sea. Evwen MacAskil, World War I
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Wallace Stevens, amigo of Cuban writers
April 18, 2012 Wallace Stevens and Cristina García? Not the most obvious pairing. Yet it is Stevens’s poems that remained on García’s desk throughout the writing of Dreaming in Cuban, giving the novel its epigraph. And for Stevens, Havana is … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean literature, Comparative literature, Cuba, Global South, Latin America, Letters, Modernist poetry, peripheral networks, Spanish, Translation, Twentieth century literature, Universities, world literature
Tagged " José Rodríguez Feo, "Academic Discourse in Havana", "Someone puts a Pineapple 'Together", Antillean, Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban, El Sol, Hartford, Havana, Key West, Madrid, Secretaries of the Moon, Wallace Stevens
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