Writing to Cuba

“Informative and rewarding reading for scholars in both historical and literary fields.” — New West Indian Guide

“A well-written, cogently argued book that packs an incredible amount of analysis into a short space. . . . An excellent book.” — Cuban Studies

“Writing to Cuba. . . presents highly provocative and original research from rare source materials, with applications to many important subjects, including antebellum journalism, literature, ethnicity, romanticism, and gender. . . . Above all, Lazo contributes substantively to the emergent field of filibuster cultural studies.” — Journal of American History

“The less-known material that Lazo draws on in Writing to Cuba is not only textual but highly ephemeral. . . . Lazo’s book usefully reminds us that the antebellum rhetoric of manifest destiny was applied just as frequently to the proposed annexation of Cuba as it was to the former Mexican territories in the west.” — American Literature

“A significant and much-needed study of the transnational print cultures of Cuban exiles in the United States during the middle of the nineteenth century. . . . The concrete and careful account of the specific conditions that enabled a nineteenth-century transnational print culture is especially illuminating, and Lazo’s analysis of the strengths and limits of such a formation is a strong contribution to recent efforts to move beyond nation-based frames of analysis without forgetting the powerful full of the nation as form, for exiles and other in the nineteenth century and beyond.” — Americas

“Lazo’s is the first and only complete study of the essays, periodical articles, poetry, and fiction of this important literary corpus, and it is the first study to suggest the new paradigm of transnationalism, a paradigm that can be applied to all of the writings of Hispanics in the United States. . . . It will make a strong contribution in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, cultural studies, Caribbean literature, and American studies. It is a model for the type of scholarship that needs to be conducted in recovering the historical and literary past.” — Nicolás Kanellos, University of Houston