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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785506903321

Autore

Guerra Lillian

Titolo

Visions of power in Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971 / / Lillian Guerra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4696-0151-6

0-8078-3736-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Envisioning Cuba

Disciplina

972.9106/4

Soggetti

Press and propaganda - Cuba

Public opinion - Cuba

Social psychology - Cuba

Cuba History Revolution, 1959 Propaganda

Cuba History Revolution, 1959 Public opinion

Cuba History 1959-1990

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

Introduction : "Today, even Fidel is a counterrevolutionary!" : excavating the grand narrative of the Cuban Revolution -- The olive green revolution : media, mass rallies, agrarian reform, and the birth of the Fidelista state -- Good Cubans, bad Cubans, and the trappings of revolutionary faith -- War of words : laying the groundwork for radicalization -- Turning the world upside down : Fidelismo as a cultural religion and national crisis as a way of life -- Resistance, repression, and co-optation among the revolution's chosen people -- Class war and complicity in a grassroots dictatorship : gusanos, citizen-spies, and the early role of Cuban youth -- Juventud rebelde : nonconformity, gender, and the struggle to control revolutionary youth -- Self-styled revolutionaries : forgotten struggles for social change and the problem of unintended dissidence -- The ofensiva revolucionaria and the zafra de los diez millones : inducing popular euphoria, fraying Fidelismo -- The reel, real, and hyper-real revolution : self-representation and political performance in everyday life -- Epilogue : the revolution that might have been and the revolution that



was : memory, amnesia, and history.

Sommario/riassunto

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.   Mass rallies and labor mobilizations of unprecedented scale produced tangible evidence of what Fidel Castro called ""unanimous support"" for a revolution whose ""moral power"" defied U.S. control. Yet p