“A Roosevelt,”, 38

Abreu, Juan, 68, 71, 78–79, 89, 98–99, 131–132, 145, 165n23, 166n26

AIDS, 68, 72–73, 129, 164nn21–22

agency, 1, 21–22, 47, 55–56, 58, 83, 100

Americas, 3, 28

Antes que anochezca: una autobiografía, 59, 63, 67, 70, 75, 90, 119, 124, 135–136, 147–148, 158, 159n1, 164n21, 165n23

antirevolutionary, 56, 79, 101

Ariel, 8, 31, 33, 35–40, 42–44, 49, 51, 96, 99, 102, 162nn8–9

Arturo, la estrella más brillante, 91–94, 122–123, 134–136, 166n29

asalto, El, 73, 140, 145–146, 149–150, 159n1

Ashcroft, Bill, 6, 12, 19, 24, 30–35, 44, 46–47, 54, 78, 84, 93, 118, 154

barbarism, 49, 163n14

Barquet, Jesús J., 71

Batista, Fulgencio, 59, 63–64, 81, 85, 117–118, 130, 158, 167n33

Béjar, Eduardo, 83, 98

Bejel, Emilio, 155–156, 158, 167n32

Bhabha, Homi, 16, 24–25, 31, 37, 49, 58, 104, 155

Bordo, Susan, 114

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 7, 65, 90

Calibanesque discourse, 69

“caso Padilla,”, 65

Castro, Fidel, 2, 7–8, 56, 59, 63–67, 69–70, 72, 76, 79, 81–86, 90–91, 93–94, 96–98, 102–104, 107–108, 116–120, 125, 132, 134–135, 143, 150–151, 158, 163n11, 167nn31–32, 169n39, 170n42, 172nn46–47

Celestino antes del alba, 69–70, 74, 76, 79, 90, 118, 133, 138, 140–141, 143, 146, 148, 159, 165, 172

center/periphery, 2–3, 16, 28, 55, 58, 76, 83

Césaire, Aimé, 8, 15–16, 29, 38, 42–43, 45–47, 49–50, 82, 156–157, 162n8, 164n20

Chambers, Iain, 17, 55, 154, 173n47