Cuban literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the effect of the 1959 revolution on Cuban literature, the Cuban diaspora. Nineteenth-century Cuban writing: Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiography of a Slave; José Martí's writing. The twentieth-century novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers. Zoé Valdés's La nada cotidiana (I Gave You All I Had) and female disillusion with Castro's rise to power. Cuban American writers.
