| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. By Rodrigo Lazo. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2930-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5594-4.)

Miami University English professor Rodrigo Lazo's interdisciplinary work surveys one dozen Cuban exile newspapers, some of them bilingual, that enjoyed runs in New York City and New Orleans between the Mexican War and the Civil War. Since several, such as the aptly named El Filibustero, promoted filibustering to free the island from Spanish rule, Lazo focuses especially on press opinion about expeditions and the related issue of United States annexation of Cuba. Drawing on Edward Said's theories, Lazo highlights the "transnational" (p. 16) literary output, especially poetry, of the self-labeled "desterrados" (p. 14)—"deterritorialized" editors and publishers "intimately connected and disconnected to more than one country" (p. 14)—who produced and disseminated the papers. Many desterrados and some contributors (for example, Juan Clemente Zenea and José María Heredia) had established literary credentials before their exiles, and Lazo asserts the legitimacy of previously overlooked exile texts, hoping to "remap the contours of literary history" (p. 20) by transcending the custom of identifying authors with single nation-states.

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