Visions of power in Cuba revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971
In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations ex...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
c2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798429306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "Today, even Fidel is a counterrevolutionary!" : excavating the grand narrative of the Cuban Revolution
- The olive green revolution : media, mass rallies, agrarian reform, and the birth of the Fidelista state
- Good Cubans, bad Cubans, and the trappings of revolutionary faith
- War of words : laying the groundwork for radicalization
- Turning the world upside down : Fidelismo as a cultural religion and national crisis as a way of life
- Resistance, repression, and co-optation among the revolution's chosen people
- Class war and complicity in a grassroots dictatorship : gusanos, citizen-spies, and the early role of Cuban youth
- Juventud rebelde : nonconformity, gender, and the struggle to control revolutionary youth
- Self-styled revolutionaries : forgotten struggles for social change and the problem of unintended dissidence
- The ofensiva revolucionaria and the zafra de los diez millones : inducing popular euphoria, fraying Fidelismo
- The reel, real, and hyper-real revolution : self-representation and political performance in everyday life
- Epilogue : the revolution that might have been and the revolution that was : memory, amnesia, and history.
