{"product_id":"a-new-no-mans-land-writing-and-art-at-guant-namo-cuba","title":"A New No-Man's-Land: Writing and Art at Guant?namo, Cuba","description":"Guant?namo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In \u003ci\u003eA New No-Man's-Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive of materials produced both at the US naval base and in neighboring Cuban communities and proposes an understanding of Guant?namo as a coherent borderland region, where experiences of isolation are opportunities to find common ground. She analyzes poetry, art, memoirs, and documentary films produced on both sides of the border. Authors and artists include prisoners, guards, linguists, chaplains, lawyers, and journalists, as well as Cuban artists and dissidents. Their work reveals surprising similarities: limited access to power and self-representation, mobility restricted by geography if not captivity, and immersion in political languages that have ascribed them rigid roles. Read together, the work of these disparate communities traces networks that extend among individuals in the Guant?namo region, inward to Cuba, and outward to the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Whitfield\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of comparative literature and Hispanic studies at Brown University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eCuban Currency: The Dollar and 'Special Period' Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor, with Jacqueline Loss, of \u003ci\u003eNew Short Fiction from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Anke Birkenmaier, of \u003ci\u003eHavana beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989\u003c\/i\u003e. With Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, she translated José Ramón Sánchez Leyva's poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Arrow. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522960822546,"sku":"9780822948155","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63860f7a-71cb-479f-8567-4bad204e264a.jpg?v=1731130437","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-new-no-mans-land-writing-and-art-at-guant-namo-cuba","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}