Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary
society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This
all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria
o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in
protests that have adopted the theme song “patria y vida”
(fatherland and life), a collaboration by exiles that, predictably,
has been banned in Cuba itself. Lillian Guerra excavates the rise
of a Soviet-advised Communist culture controlled by state
institutions and the creation of a multidimensional system of state
security whose functions embedded themselves into daily activities
and individual consciousness and reinforced these binaries. But
despite public performance of patriotism, the life experience of
many Cubans was somewhere in between. Guerra explores these
in-between spaces and looks at Cuban citizens’ complicity with
authoritarianism, leaders’ exploitation of an earnest
anti-imperialist nationalism, and the duality of an existence that
contains elements of both support and betrayal of a nation and of
an ideology.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Pitt Latin American Series |
| Release date: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Lillian Guerra
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
508 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8229-4773-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8229-4773-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780822947738 |
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