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Cuba before Castro - A Century of Family Memoirs (Paperback)
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Cuba before Castro - A Century of Family Memoirs (Paperback)
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Although much has been written about Cuba after Castro, relatively
little has been written about Cuba before Castro. The political
reality of Castro's Revolution has created a historical void about
this period, paying insufficient attention to an important century
before 1959. Cuba has become a political punching bag, between
supporters and critics of Castro and the Revolution, making it
difficult to understand real life in Cuba because of the
disproportionate preoccupation with, and monopoly of, the political
reality on the island. In spite of some attempts, it continues to
be easier and perceived as more pressing, to write about politics
rather than the reality that Cubans experienced in their daily
lives- their sufferings and celebrations, successes and failures,
lives and deaths, and beliefs and disbeliefs. Going for and against
the avalanche of information about the political authenticity in
and out of Cuba, most Cubans have tended to forget that Cuba is
much larger than the perceived reality after Castro's Revolution.
Too many have failed to remember the Cubans who have lived and
worked in Cuba in the century before an important period of Cuban
history where the nation was forged. Indeed, even limited attention
reveals a rich and sophisticated society that calls for study. In
this book Jorge J.E. Gracia approaches this situation by telling
true stories about some members of his family (Doctor Ignacio
Gracia, Maruca Otero, the Marques de Arguelles, and many others)
who lived during a culturally rich century before Castro. He hopes
to entice historians, academics, tourists and others, to pursue a
balanced exploration of the island by telling part of their
stories. This enterprise is neither history nor fiction, but
memories written by a Cuban who left Cuba when he was eighteen
years old and has become a distinguished philosopher in the United
States.
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