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This two-volume reference set contains entries on Cuba's art and literature, events, people, places, and other culturally significant aspects. West-Duran (languages, literatures, and cultures, Northeastern U.) draws together 29 longer survey articles, which focus on major topics, and 150 shorter and more focused counterpoint articles, which focus on a specific date in history, a town or city, a work of art or literature, a film, or a piece of music, on topics such as Afro-Cuban jazz, the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban Missile Crisis, education, ecology and the environment, film, Florida, food, Guantanamo, Havana, language, Benny More, Celia Cruz, Jose Marti, health and health care, religion, diasporas, gender, sexuality, sports, the Spanish-American-Cuban War, dance, race, sugar, tobacco, and Cuba's relationship to the world. Entry authors are scholars from both the US and Cuba. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
