This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to
the military prison at Guantánamo Bay other manifestations of Guantánamo and the contested
place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and writers based in
Cuba's Guantánamo Province and various parts of the US. Its essays short stories poetry and
other texts engage the far-reaching meaning and significance of Gitmo by bringing together what
happens on the U.S. side of the fence-or la cerca as it is called in Cuba-with perspectives
from the outside world. Chapters include critiques of artistic renderings of the Guantánamo
region historical narratives contemplating the significance of freedom analyses of the ways
the base and region inform the Cuban imaginary and fiction and poetry published for the first
time in English. Not simply a critique of imperialism this volume presents politically engaged
commentary that suggests a way forward for a site of global contact and conflict.
