The Cuban Revolution has generated extraordinary literary achievements by writers both within Cuba and in exile. This book focuses on selected works by Edmundo Desnoes, Senel Paz and Elías Miguel Muñoz and the transformations of their texts from prose to film and theatre. Performing Cuba breaks new ground by clearly demonstrating how these multiple rewritings and additional authorial voices from the filmic and theatrical media rewrite the characters' gender performances in order to manipulate the texts' reading.

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The Author: Denis Jorge Berenschot is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Shepherd University, West Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of numerous articles on contemporary Cuban literature and theatre.