Maurico A. Font is Director of the Bildner Centre for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at the graduate centre and Queens college, City University of New York.Araceli Tinajero is Professor of Spanish at the Graduate Centre and the City College of New York. She is the author of El Lector: a History of the Cigar Factory, amongst other books.

"This handbook fills a need to bring interested readers up to date with developments in Cuban culture and society after the Special Period, when the Soviet Union disappeared together with its generous subsidies. . .Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries." —CHOICE "Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts offers in one volume a comprehensive view of the status of Cuban studies today. The book illuminates the growing salience of social issues and changes in music, literature, cinema, and theater, thus fostering a fuller understanding of historical and current social dynamics of a Cuba in transformation today. This compilation contributes to the development of a framework for understanding the ongoing transformations in the presence of changing structural dynamics." — Sir Read-a-Lot

• General Introduction Part I: History 1 El derecho de nacer: Legitimidad, historia, y literatura en Cuba 2 In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: Mobilization and Popular Support for Revolutionary Change, 1959–1961 3 Youth Organizations in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1962: From Unidad to Vanguardia 4 Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952–2002 5 Cuban Corporatism: Batista’s Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayed 6 An Anarchist Crucible: Transnational Radicals in Cuba, 1900–1915 7 The Hernández Family: Migration, Cubanidad, and Transnational Identities Part II: Literature and Intellectuals 8 Defining the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the Doctrine of Martí 9 Fantoches 1926: A Collective Crime Mystery 10 Reinaldo Arenas: The Spokesman of the Invisible Community 11 Havana, a City of Disenchantment in the Narrative of Padura Fuentes 12 El sujeto cubano en ruinas y las heterotopías sexualizadas de La Habana en Contrabando de sombras, de Antonio José Ponte Part III: Arts 13 “La Habana está en todas partes”: Young Musicians and the Symbolic Redefinition of the Cuban Nation 14 Rumba Performance and the Politics of Place in the Era of Cultural Tourism 15 Cuban Ethnicities in Cinematic Context, 1930s–1950s 16 Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Havana 17 Infidelity in Cuban Drama of the 1980s and 1990s: Toward a Positive Interpretation of Rupture 18 Teatro cubano del transmilenio, 1990–2010 19 P.M. in the Artistic Context 20 Una mirada historiográfica a la plástica cubana contemporánea: La Generación de cierta esperanza versus la Generación de la esperanza cierta