160 the Little War of August The brutally suppressed Afro-Cuban uprising of 1912, provoked by the outlawing of the principal Afro-Cuban political party the Partido Independiente de Color.
160 When the War of Independence broke out in Cuba In October 1868; this phase of the war ended with the signing of the Pact of Zanjón in early 1878.
115 Hatuey beer The most popular Cuban beer, named after a legendary Taino chief who died resisting the Spanish conquest of Cuba.
187 Cernuda Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963); one of his best-known poems is “El Joven Marinero” (“The Young Sailor”), 1935.
204 Honorable Women Las Honradas, a novel of social attitudes and the “question of free love/’ by Cuban writer Miguel de Carrion (1875-1929).
208 the first two presidents of the Republic in arms In the temporarily liberated eastern parts of Cuba, during the 1868-1878 War of Independence.
272 the First U.S. Intervention 1898-1902.
292 Doña Juana is dreaming Her dream takes place on May 20, 1902, when Tomás Estrada Palma was inaugurated as the first elected president of the Republic of Cuba. Unlike Miss Berta, who remembers the political and military figures associated with her mother, Doña Juanas dream is crowded with poets: Nieves Xenes (1859-1915), Luisa Pérez de Zambrana (1835™ 1922), poet and philosopher Enrique José Varona (1849— 1933), Aurelia Castillo de González (1842-1920) José Manuel Poveda (1888-1926), Esteban Borrero Echevarría (1849-1906).
302 I pine for the regions … From Julián del Casal’s poem “Nostalgias.”
314 José Asunción Colombian poet José Asunción Silva (1865-1896).
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