Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and maps
- Note on language and translations
- Introduction
- 1 James J. O'Kelly at Jiguaní (1873)
- 2 José Martí at Vega del Jobo (1895)
- 3 Richard Harding Davis in Santiago de Cuba (1897)
- 4 Edward Stratemeyer at Siboney (1898)
- 5 Andrew Summers Rowan in Bayamo (1898)
- 6 Josephine Herbst in Realengo 18 (1935)
- 7 Antonio Núñez Jiménez on Pico Turquino (1945)
- 8 ‘Less than human’: Guantánamo Bay (2002)
- Envoi
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - ‘Less than human’: Guantánamo Bay (2002)
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and maps
- Note on language and translations
- Introduction
- 1 James J. O'Kelly at Jiguaní (1873)
- 2 José Martí at Vega del Jobo (1895)
- 3 Richard Harding Davis in Santiago de Cuba (1897)
- 4 Edward Stratemeyer at Siboney (1898)
- 5 Andrew Summers Rowan in Bayamo (1898)
- 6 Josephine Herbst in Realengo 18 (1935)
- 7 Antonio Núñez Jiménez on Pico Turquino (1945)
- 8 ‘Less than human’: Guantánamo Bay (2002)
- Envoi
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
11 December 2002: Detainee was reminded that no one loved, cared or remembered him. He was reminded that he was less than human and that animals had more freedom and love than he does.
(Interrogation log detainee #63)This book has covered plenty of ground: from Bayamo and Manzanillo in the west of its region, across the Sierras Maestra and Cristal to the great port of Santiago de Cuba and to Baracoa in the east. It followed José Martí's last journey just inland from the inner part of Guantánamo Bay, and it paused at the outer part where Stephen Crane landed with the US marines in June 1898. he last chapter of the book has to return to Guantánamo Bay. I wish it were not so. What has happened in places colours their names for ever: Auschwitz, Wounded Knee, Hiroshima, My Lai, Sharpeville—these can never simply be places like any other. Guantánamo Bay is a huge natural feature of south-east Cuba, with a hinterland containing the city of Guantánamo and the towns of Caimanera and Boquerón. In the fifteenth century Guantanabó, in eastern Cuba, had been the name of a river, of the bay into which the river flowed, of a town on the river, and of a political province, all located within the Indian cacicazgo, or chiefdom, of Baitiquirí. Columbus called this huge bay Puerto Grande, but the indigenous name survived in the hispanised form of Guantánamo.
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- Cuba's Wild EastA Literary Geography of Oriente, pp. 372 - 397Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011