Los Filibusteros: Cuban Writers in the United States and Deterritorialized Print Culture.

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  • Author(s): Lazo, Rodrigo J.
  • Source:
    American Literary History. Spring2003, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p87. 20p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Cuban authors; Filibusters (Adventurers); Colonies
    • Subject Terms:
      Cuba; United States
    • Abstract:
      Examines how Cuban writers living in the U.S. during the 19th century supported filibustering expeditions and advocated armed revolution against Spain's colonial apparatus on the island. Framing of filibustering as an anticolonial movement against Spain; Context for reading the publications of writers from Cuba in the U.S.; Advocacy of immediate armed revolution by the newspaper 'El Filibustero.'