Emilio Rodriguez

Emilio Jorge Rodriguez is a Cuban essayist and literary critic. The Havana University graduate is a former director of Casa de las Americas Center of Caribbean Studies, where he was also a researcher from 1979 to 2000. Rodriguez founded and edited Anales del Caribe from 1981 to 2000. He has lectured at universities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the USA. Rodriguez is the author of Literatura caribena; bojeo y cuaderno de bitacora (1989) and Acriollamiento y discurso escrit/oral cariben ...See more

Emilio Jorge Rodriguez is a Cuban essayist and literary critic. The Havana University graduate is a former director of Casa de las Americas Center of Caribbean Studies, where he was also a researcher from 1979 to 2000. Rodriguez founded and edited Anales del Caribe from 1981 to 2000. He has lectured at universities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the USA. Rodriguez is the author of Literatura caribena; bojeo y cuaderno de bitacora (1989) and Acriollamiento y discurso escrit/oral cariben (2001). He has edited several anthologies of Caribbean writers, and has contributed essays to numeous books, including America Latina: Palavra, Literatura e Cultura (1995), A History of Literature in the Caribbean (1997), and Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (2006). Most recently, he is author of HAITI AND TRANS-CARIBBEAN LITERARY IDENTITY/HAITI Y LA TRANSCARIBENIDAD LITERARIA (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2011). See less