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Visions of power in Cuba, revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971, Lillian Guerra

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Visions of power in Cuba, revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971, Lillian Guerra

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-444) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Visions of power in Cuba

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

775898093

Responsibility statement

Lillian Guerra

Series statement

Envisioning Cuba

Sub title

revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971

Table Of Contents

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

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