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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464422003321

Autore

Routon Kenneth

Titolo

Hidden powers of state in the Cuban imagination [[electronic resource] /] / Kenneth Routon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2010

ISBN

0-8130-3885-5

0-8130-4318-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

972.9106/4

Soggetti

Political culture - Cuba

Socialism - Cuba

Exceptionalism - Cuba

Electronic books.

Cuba Politics and government 1959-1990

Cuba Politics and government 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. The Magic of the Revolution; 2. The Eye and the Tongue; 3. The Opacity of Power; 4. Conjuring the Past; 5. Tying the Yuma to the Stick; 6. The Cult of the Profane; 7. The Prophetics of Revolution; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Despite its hard-nosed emphasis on the demystifying realism of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the political imagery of the Cuban revolution--and the state that followed--conjures up its own magical seductions and fantasies of power. In this fascinating account, Kenneth Routon shows how magic practices and political culture are entangled in Cuba in unusual and intimate ways.  Routon describes not only how the monumentality of the state arouses magical sensibilities and popular images of its hidden powers, but he also explores the ways in which revolutionary officialdom has, in recent years,