The epic of Cuba Libre : the mambí, mythopoetics, and liberation /

An exposition and analysis of how the legend of the Cuban freedom fighter has been retold and manifested in Cuban literature, film, public monuments and even its national currency.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morales-Franceschini, Eric (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022].
Series:	New World studies.
Subjects:	Cuban literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Revolutionaries in literature. Revolutionaries in popular culture. Archetype (Psychology) in literature. Cuba > History > Insurrection, 1868-1878 > Literature and the insurrection. Cuba > History > Revolution, 1879-1880 > Literature and the revolution. Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Literature and the revolution.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Epic of the dispossessed
The epic marooned: Blackness and the desire called Cuba libre
¡Empínate!: of motherhood, mimicry, and the mambisa
The epic travestied: choteo and the mambí as populist trickster
¡Al machete!: on epic violence
The epic (de)sacralized: sacrifice and the specter of the camp
Epilogue: On moral equivalence in the twenty-first century.