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"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.

Este estudio sobre la poesía cubofuturista de "Poemes en ondes hertzianes" (1919) de Joan Salvat-Papasseit dilucida el sentido intencional de los poemas más herméticos del poeta catalán. De la intuición clara y distinta del sentido de los textos se extrae una valoración humanista del cubofuturismo lírico de Salvat y de la visión pneumo-materialista que lo alienta. Se reivindica de esta manera la seriedad, elevación y sofisticación imaginativa de la poesía inaugural de Joan Salvat-Papasseit.

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.