The Cubalogues

Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work. Todd Tietchen clearly documents the multiple ways in which the Beats engaged with the scene in Havana, and demonstrates that even in these early years the Beat movement expounded a diverse but identifiable politics.