In the 1920s many of Cubas intellectuals like Jorge Manach were confronted with how to deal with a new postcolonial universe whose neocolonial leanings were undeniable A palpable unease runs throughout An Inquiry into Choteo first delivered as a lecture in 1928 as Manach anxiously attempts to explain this idiosyncratic Cuban attitude or humor that he deems prevalent in the first few turbulent decades of the 20th century Esteemed in the Spanish-sp...