Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate
intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of
emotions on political attitudes and action in Cuba or elsewhere.
This book thus offers an important new approach by bringing
feelings back into the study of politics and showing how the
politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban
history throughout the twentieth century.
Damian Fernandez characterizes the politics of passion as the
pursuit of a moral absolute for the nation as a whole. While such a
pursuit rallied the Cuban people around charismatic leaders such as
Fidel Castro, Fernandez finds that it also set the stage for
disaffection and disconnection when the grand goal never fully
materialized. At the same time, he reveals how the politics of
affection-taking care of family and friends outside the formal
structures of government-has paradoxically both undermined state
regimes and helped them remain in power by creating an informal
survival network that provides what the state cannot or will
not.
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