The literature of Cuban Americans may be read in light of Cuban immigration to the United States and/or Cuban exile. Cortina incorporates this history into his grouping of Cuban American literary output into "generations": neoclassical (circa 1800–1825), romantic (1825–1850), realist–naturalist (1850–1880), impressionist (1880–1910), avant-garde (1910–1940), existentialist (1940–1960), revolutionary (1960–1985), and postmodern (1985–).^[1]

Cuban-American literature may be found in Spanish-language United States newspapers such as:^[3]

• El Eco de Cuba (est. 1855 in New York)
• El Horizonte (est. 1850 in New York by Miguel Teurbe Tolón)
• El Mulato (est. 1854 in New York)
• La Verdad (1848-1860, New York)

• List of Cuban-American writers
• Cuban immigration to the United States

in English edit

• A. R. Hernández and Lourdes Casal. "Cubans in the United States: A Survey of the Literature" Estudios Cubanos Vol. 5 (1975).
• Carolina Hospital, ed. (1988). Cuban–American Writers: Los Atrevidos. Princeton: Linden Lane Press. (Anthology)
• Eliana S. Rivero (1989). "From Immigrants to Ethnics: Cuban Women Writers in the U.S.". In Asunción Horno–Delgado; et al. (eds.). Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Amherst: U of Massachusetts Press. [1]
• Rodolfo J. Cortina, ed. (1991). Cuban-American Theater. Houston: Arte Publico Press.
• Rodolfo J. Cortina (1993). "History and Development of Cuban American Literature: a Survey". In Francisco Lomeli (ed.). Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art. Houston: Arte Publico Press. pp. 40–61. ISBN 978-1-61192-163-2. [2]
• Lillian D. Bertot. The Literary Imagination of the Mariel Generation. Miami: Cuban American National Foundation, 1995.
• Maria Cristina Garcia (1996). "Cuban Writers and Scholars in Exile". Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994. University of California Press. pp. 169+. ISBN 978-0-520-91999-0.
• Carolina Hospital; Jorge Cantera, eds. (1996). A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida: Selected Prose and Poetry. Sarasota: Pineapple Press. ISBN 978-1-56164-104-8. (Anthology; includes writer biographies)
• Isabel Álvarez Borland (1998). Cuban–American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. University of Virginia Press.
• Rodrigo Lazo. "Los Filibusteros: Cuban Writers in the United States and Deterritorialized Print Culture" American Literary History 15 (January 2003): 87-106.
• M. Delores Carlito (2005). Cuban-American Fiction in English: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5680-6.
• Rodrigo Lazo (2005). Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban exiles in the United States. Envisioning Cuba. Univ. of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807829307.[3]
• Rodolfo J. Cortina (2008), "Cuban Literature in the United States", in Nicolás Kanellos (ed.), Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, ABC-CLIO [4]
• Isabel Álvarez Borland; Lynette M. F. Bosch, eds. (2009). "Literature". Cuban–American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities. State University of New York Press. pp. 15–128. ISBN 0791493741. (Essays by Jorge Febles, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Iraida H. López, William Luis, Elena Rivero, Adriana Méndez Rodenas)
• Ricardo L. Ortiz (2013). "Canons: Cuban-American Literature". In Suzanne Bost; Frances R. Aparicio (eds.). Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Routledge. pp. 413–422. ISBN 978-1-136-22160-6. [5]
• Armando Simon (2014) The Cult of Suicide and Other Scifi Stories. Raleigh: Lulu Press.

in Spanish edit

• Linden Lane Magazine (in Spanish), ISSN 0736-1084 1982- (Founded by Belkis Cuza Malé and Heberto Padilla)
• Mariel (in Spanish and English), Miami, FL, ISSN 0892-7820 1986-
• González, Yara, “La poesía cubana en los Estados Unidos” in Culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos, eds. María Jesus Buxó Rey; Tomás Calvo Buezas (Cultura Hispánica Madrid, 1990)
• Armando Simon, "Infidel!" Raleigh, Lulu Press, 2008.

• "Cuban American Fiction in English". Library Guides. University of Alabama at Birmingham.^{[permanent dead link]}
• "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project". Houston: Arte Publico Press. Archived from the original on 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-02-26. (includes information about Cuban-American literature)
• University of Miami; University of Florida. "Cuban Exile Newspapers at the University of Miami" – via Digital Library of the Caribbean.