Guantánamo and American Empire

1. Finding Guantánamo: Freedom, Paradox, and Poetry
Don E. Walicek, Jessica Adams

2. The Amen Temple of Empire
Diana Murtaugh Coleman

3. Responding to Erasure: U.S. Imperialism, Guantánamo Bay, and Haitian Asylum Policy
Don E. Walicek

4. The Many Bodies of Mos Def: Notes for an Unremarkable Poem on Failure
Guillermo Rebollo Gil

5. Storytelling and Truth-Telling: Testimonial Narratives in The Road to Guantánamo and Guantánamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’

A. Naomi Paik

6. Guantánamo and Community: Visual Approaches to the Naval Base
Esther Whitfield

7. “Kites” and “Breathing Room,” withan Introduction by the Author
Ana Luz García Calzada

8. Guantánamo in the Eye of the Hurricane
José Sánchez Guerra

9. Where’s Guantánamo in Granma? Competing Discourses on Detention and Terrorism
Jana K. Lipman

10. Poetic Imaginings of the Real Guantánamo (No, Not the Base)
Laurie Frederik

11. Poetry and the Enemy’s Arrows: An Interview with José Ramón Sánchez Leyva
Don E. Walicek

12. Selected Poetry
José Ramón Sánchez Leyva

Keywords: Literature, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Literature, Cultural History, Latin American Culture