26th of July Movement
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Bay of Pigs
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Cold War
Cuba
Cuban American history
Cuban Americans
Cuban collective memory
Cuban exile politics
Cuban exiles
Cuban historical memory
Cuban history
Cuban migration
Cuban nationalism
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Revolutionary Council
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Fidel Castro
Florida Straits
Fulgencio Batista
memory
Miami
nostalgia among Cubans
Partido Socialista Popular
Revolutionary Directorate
socialism in Cuba
transnational history of Cuba
Product details
- ISBN 9781469662039
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story.
Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.
Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.
Michael J. Bustamante is assistant professor of history at Florida International University.
