Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvJohn A. Gronbeck-Tedesco

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This book examines the ways in which Cuba's revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth century. It argues that new networks of solidarity building between US and Cuban allies also brought with them perils and pitfalls that could not be separated from the longer history of US empire in Cuba. As US and Cuban subjects struggled together towards common aspirations of racial and gender equality, fairer distribution of wealth, and anti-imperialism, they created a unique index of cultural work that widens our understanding of the transition between hemispheric modernism and postmodernism. Canvassing poetry, music, journalism, photographs, and other cultural expressions around themes of revolution, this book seeks new understanding of how race, gender, and nationhood could shift in meaning and materialization when traveling across the Florida Straits.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-20
Mått160 x 237 x 22 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor307
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107083080

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Introduction; 1. Remapping 'our America': US-Cuban transnational history; 2. Documenting the 'crime of Cuba': the US-Cuban transnational left and the 1933 revolution; 3. Good or bad neighbors? Pan-American culture and the 1933 Cuban Revolution; 4. Race and revolution in verse: US-Cuban diasporic culture and politics; 5. The making of revolutionary exceptionalism: (post)modernization and remixing the cultural left; 6. Race and the Cuban Revolution in the post-Bandung era; 7. From suffragists to soldiers: revolutionary womanhood and gendered citizenship; Conclusion.

'This is a wonderfully bold sweep through the history of US–Cuban cultural, literary, and political relations from the early 1930s to the 1960s, emphasizing lengthy transnational commitments to radicalism, revolution, and solidarity. Its interdisciplinary approach and innovative use of popular culture, music, poetry, and politics internationalizes US history in novel ways that will make the book obligatory reading for students of American studies and Latin American history.' Barry Carr, La Trobe University, Victoria