Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking

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Cuban art critic and curator Ivan de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades in these sparkling essays of cultural criticism. Essays on Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, on racism and Big Data, Guantanamo and Reggaeton, soccer and baseball, Obama and the Rolling Stones, Europe and Donald Trump-de la Nuez approaches his criticism with singularity of purpose. In Cubanthropy he does not set out to explain Cuba to the world, but rather to put the world into a Cuban context. "Nothing explains our vexed world quite like Cuba and no one anywhere writes more brilliantly, more prophetically, more impossibly than Ivan de la Nuez. As in all of his finest work, Cubanthropy delivers you beyond your old horizons into a realm of startling possibilities. Do not miss this extraordinary book or this extraordinary warlock of a writer." -Junot Diaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her "Cubanthropy may just be the smartest writing on Cuba-and beyond-I've read in ages. Insightful, unsparing, funny, and with an unerring eye for the paradoxical, Ivan de la Nuez has written the definitive compilation on 21st-century Cuba. Essential reading for all who care about how the past, present, and future are disturbingly converging on the island, and off." -Cristina Garcia, author of forthcoming Vanishing Maps

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Nothing explains our vexed world quite like Cuba and no one anywhere writes more brilliantly, more prophetically, more impossibly than Ivn de la Nuez. As in all of his finest work, Cubanthropy delivers you beyond your old horizons into a realm of startling possibilities. Do not miss this extraordinary book or this extraordinary warlock of a writer. Junot Daz, author of This Is How You Lose Her


"Cubanthropy may just be the smartest writing on Cubaand beyondI've read in ages. Insightful, unsparing, funny, and with an unerring eye for the paradoxical, Ivn de la Nuez has written the definitive compilation on 21st-century Cuba. Essential reading for all who care about how the past, present, and future are disturbingly converging on the island, and off." Cristina Garca, author of forthcoming Vanishing Maps

"What would the so-called End of History look like if it were viewed not from Washington or Moscow, Berlin or Beijing, but from Havana With cosmopolitan sophistication and acerbic wit,Cubanthropythrows a wrench into a number of received ideas about global politics and culture in the post-communist period, not least of which is what counts as center and what counts as periphery."Ryan Ruby, author of The Zero and the One

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IV N DE LA NUEZ is an essayist, a critic and an art curator. In 1995, he received the Rockefeller Fellowship for the Humanities. He has written art and literary criticism in numerous media, such as El Pais and the cultural magazine, La Maleta de Portbou. He has been director of the Center for the Image of Barcelona, La Virreina, as well as curator of several highly relevant exhibitions. Author of different anthologies, such as Cuba- The Possible Island (1995), Landscapes After the Wall (1999) or Cuba and the Day After (2001), his essays The Perpetual Raft (1998) and Red Fantasy (2006) have achieved a great reception amongst the critics and the public, and they have been translated into several languages. ELLEN JONES is a literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion- Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.