Guillén, both in poetry and in journalistic prose. Colonialism therefore presents itself as a common enemy, in stark contradiction to the freedom sustained and sung with the best encouragement by Cuba’s national poet. From this perspective, we will analyze not only the victimization that Black people were subjected to because of slavery, but also their rebellions and their participation in shaping the Cuban national profile.
Book review: Pavel Marek, Pernštejnské ženy: Marie Manrique de Lara a její dcery ve službách habsburské dynastie. Praha: Lidové Noviny 2018, 500 p. ISBN 978-80-7422-641-0.
Book review: Manuel Hernández González, Resistencia y adaptación. La pugna del campesinado guajiro isleño del occidente de Cuba contra la sacarocracía (1670-1817). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ediciones IDEA, 2020, 753 p. ISBN 978-84-18138-55-3.
Book review: Claudia Varella – Manuel Barcía, Wage-Earning Slaves. Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press 2020, 217 p. ISBN 9781683401650.
The historian, journalist and professor from La Coruña Francisco Fariña, of whom we now celebrate the 130th anniversary of his birth, came to Czechoslovakia in 1933. He collaborated with the Spanish and Ibero-American Institute and the Schools of Languages of Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University Masaryk in Brno. His students played a key role in Spanish and Ibero-American studies becoming a university degree. The political situation in Spain and professional jealousy clouded his stay in the Central European country and forced him to exile in Germany, where he died in 1955.
Book review: José Antonio Piqueras – Imilcy Balboa (eds.), Esclavitud y legado afrodescendiente en el trópico. Valencia: Fundación Instituto de Historia Social, 2020, 267 p. ISBN 978-84-12286-91-5.
The text presents two different views on the problems with the Bohemian revolt and the Battle of the White Mountain (1620). The analysis of the Spanish perception (for example, the Spanish ambassador Oñate, members of the State Council, and Spanish King) described the conflict as a broader problem, which could lead to a loss of the Habsburg’s lands in Central Europe. In contrast, the Bohemian point understood the revolt in Prague as a danger to the position of the Catholic nobility in Bohemia.
Jaroslav Hrdlička – Jan Blahoslav Lášek (eds.), Paměti Vlastimila Kybala II.
