Seymour Menton is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine. As a reviewer of Central American and Caribbean prose fiction for the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of Congress from 1959 through 1973, he had access to Cuban materials that enabled him to gather material for Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution.

• Preface Part One. The Cuban Novel of the Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny: 1959–1960 II. Exorcism and Existentialism: 1961–1965 III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism: 1966–1970 IV. The Ideological Novel: 1971– Part Two. Literature and Revolution I. Changing Government Attitude toward the Arts II. Literature and Revolution in Historical Perspective Part Three. The Cuban Short Story of the Revolution: An Anthological Survey and More I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Exorcism and Existentialism III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism IV. The Generation of 1960 V. The Ideological Story Part Four. Antirevolutionary Prose Fiction I. The Novel II. The Short Story Part Five. Foreign Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Binational Contrasts III. Antirevolutionary Novels IV. Prorevolutionary Miscellany Twelve Conclusions Chronology of Novels and Short Stories Bibliography Index

Seymour Menton is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine. As a reviewer of Central American and Caribbean prose fiction for the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of Congress from 1959 through 1973, he had access to Cuban materials that enabled him to gather material for Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution.

• Preface Part One. The Cuban Novel of the Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny: 1959–1960 II. Exorcism and Existentialism: 1961–1965 III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism: 1966–1970 IV. The Ideological Novel: 1971– Part Two. Literature and Revolution I. Changing Government Attitude toward the Arts II. Literature and Revolution in Historical Perspective Part Three. The Cuban Short Story of the Revolution: An Anthological Survey and More I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Exorcism and Existentialism III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism IV. The Generation of 1960 V. The Ideological Story Part Four. Antirevolutionary Prose Fiction I. The Novel II. The Short Story Part Five. Foreign Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Binational Contrasts III. Antirevolutionary Novels IV. Prorevolutionary Miscellany Twelve Conclusions Chronology of Novels and Short Stories Bibliography Index

Seymour Menton is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine. As a reviewer of Central American and Caribbean prose fiction for the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of Congress from 1959 through 1973, he had access to Cuban materials that enabled him to gather material for Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution.

• Preface Part One. The Cuban Novel of the Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny: 1959–1960 II. Exorcism and Existentialism: 1961–1965 III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism: 1966–1970 IV. The Ideological Novel: 1971– Part Two. Literature and Revolution I. Changing Government Attitude toward the Arts II. Literature and Revolution in Historical Perspective Part Three. The Cuban Short Story of the Revolution: An Anthological Survey and More I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Exorcism and Existentialism III. Epos, Experimentation, and Escapism IV. The Generation of 1960 V. The Ideological Story Part Four. Antirevolutionary Prose Fiction I. The Novel II. The Short Story Part Five. Foreign Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution I. The Struggle against Tyranny II. Binational Contrasts III. Antirevolutionary Novels IV. Prorevolutionary Miscellany Twelve Conclusions Chronology of Novels and Short Stories Bibliography Index