Cuban memory wars : retrospective politics in revolution and exile /

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others, especially those exiled in the United States-Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bustamante, Michael J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:	Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:	Collective memory > Cuba. Cubans > United States > Attitudes. National characteristics, Cuban. Cuban Americans > Ethnic identity. Cuba > Historiography. Cuba > History > Revolution, 1959 > Public opinion.

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Summary:	For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others, especially those exiled in the United States-Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years.
Physical Description:	x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781469662022 1469662027 9781469662039 1469662035