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Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 by Lillian Guerra (Paperback, 2014)

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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 explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice. Mass rallies and labor mobilizations of unprecedented scale produced tangible evidence of what Fidel Castro called unanimous support for a revolution whose moral power defied U.S. control. Yet participation in state-orchestrated spectacles quickly became a requirement for political inclusion in a new Cuba that policed most forms of dissent. Devoted revolutionaries who resisted disastrous economic policies, exposed post-1959 racism, and challenged gender norms set by Cuba's one-party state increasingly found themselves marginalized, silenced, or jailed. Using previously unexplored sources, Guerra focuses on the lived experiences of citizens, including peasants, intellectuals, former prostitutes, black activists, and filmmakers, as they struggled to author their own scripts of revolution by resisting repression, defying state-imposed boundaries, and working for anti-imperial redemption in a truly free Cuba.

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PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-139781469618869

eBay Product ID (ePID)208954178

Product Key Features

Publication Year2014

SubjectGovernment, History

Number of Pages488 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameVisions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

TypeTextbook

AuthorLillian Guerra

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height235 mm

Item Width156 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorLillian Guerra

Series TitleEnvisioning Cuba