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The voices we hear in these pages offer a compelling account of the realities of life in the 20th century in one part of Cuba. We encounter the famous and the infamous in this history, yet McManus grants center stage to uncovering and interpreting the ordinary and extraordinary events that defined local life and its meanings over time.'Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona UniversityIn the only Englishlanguage book devoted to Cubas Isle of Youth, Jane McManus writes the history of the small island just off Cubas southern coast from the turn of the 20th centurywhen American settlers and speculators moved to what was then the Isle of Pinesto the turn of the 21stas the idealistic Cuban youth for whom it was renamed are retiring.Employing oral histories to flesh out the economic, political, and cultural facts of this Caribbean frontier, McManus interviewed residents from all periods of the islands immigration and development: American settlement during the first quarter of the century; Japanese, Jamaican, and Cayman Island immigration during the second quarter; and its radical transformation, after 1960, by the presence of thousands of young Cubans from the main island who became its permanent residents and were joined, temporarily, by students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her interviews describe life on the island as remembered by both immigrants and nativesfrom pirates, soldiers, and planters to housekeepers, fishermen, and studentsand include testimony from the last American on the island.As a resident of Cuba, McManus enjoyed extraordinary access to Cuban archives and to both published and unpublished historical materials. Her documentary sources are augmented by access to government officials as well as family narratives and personal diaries. Drawing upon resources unavailable to most scholars outside Cuba, she has written an evocative history that captures the dreams of this islands history and the identity of its people.Jane McManus, an American journalist, editor, and translator, has lived in Cuba for 30 years. She is the author of Getting To Know Cuba (1989) and a contributor to Insight Guides: Cuba (1995).
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