Guantnamo and American Empire The Humanities Respond [Hardcover]

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guant?namo Bay, other manifestations of Guant?namo, and the contested place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and writers based in Cubas Guant?namo Province and various parts of the US. Its essays, short stories, poetry, and other texts engage the far-reaching meaning and significance of Gitmo by bringing together what happens on the U.S. side of the fenceor la cerca, as it is called in Cubawith perspectives from the outside world. Chapters include critiques of artistic renderings of the Guant?namo region; historical narratives contemplating the significance of freedom; analyses of the ways the base and region inform the Cuban imaginary; and fiction and poetry published for the first time in English. Not simply a critique of imperialism, this volume presents politically engaged commentary that suggests a way forward for a site of global contact and conflict.

1. Finding Guant?namo: Freedom, Paradox, and Poetry - Don E. Walicek and Jessica Adams.- 2. The Amen Temple of Empire - Diana Murtaugh Coleman.- 3. Responding to Erasure - Don E. Walicek.- 4. The Many Bodies of Mos Def: Notes for an Unremarkable Poem on Failure - Guillermo Rebollo Gil.- 5. Storytelling and Truth-telling: Testimonial Narratives in The Road to Guant?namo and Guant?namo: Honor Bound to Defend to Freedom- A. Naomi Paik.- 6. Guant?namo and Community: Visual Approaches to the Naval Base - Esther Whitfield.- 7. Ana Luz Garc?a Calzadas Breathing Room and Kites (fiction) with an introduction by the author, translated by Jessica Adams, Sean Manning, and Don E. Walicek.- 8. Jos? S?nchez Guerras Guant?namo: In the Eye of the Hurricane; translated by Andrew Hurley.- 9. Wheres Guant?namo in Granma? lSË