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"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 participation in state-orchestrated spectacles quickly became a requirement for political inclusion in a new Cuba that policed most forms of dissent. Devoted revolutionaries who resisted disastrous economic policies, exposed post-1959 racism, and challenged gender norms set by Cuba's one-party state increasingly found themselves marginalized, silenced, or jailed. Using previously unexplored sources, Guerra focuses on the lived experiences of citizens, including peasants, intellectuals, former prostitutes, black activists, and filmmakers, as they struggled to author their own scripts of revolution by resisting repression, defying state-imposed boundaries, and working for anti-imperial redemption in a truly free Cuba"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: "Today, Even Fidel Is A Counterrevolutionary!"
• Excavating the Grand Narrative of the Cuban Revolution
• ch. 1 Olive Green Revolution
• Media, Mass Rallies, Agrarian Reform, and the Birth of the Fidelista State
• ch. 2 Good Cubans, Bad Cubans, And The Trappings of Revolutionary Faith
• ch. 3 War of Words
• Laying the Groundwork for Radicalization
• ch. 4 Turning The World Upside Down
• Fidelismo as a Cultural Religion and National Crisis as a Way of Life
• ch. 5 Resistance, Repression, and Co-Optation Among The Revolution's Chosen People
• ch. 6 Class War and Complicity in a Grassroots Dictatorship
• Gusanos, Citizen-Spies, and the Early Role of Cuban Youth
• ch. 7 Juventud Rebelde
• Nonconformity, Gender, and the Struggle to Control Revolutionary Youth
• ch. 8 Self-Styled Revolutionaries
• Forgotten Struggles for Social Change and the Problem of Unintended Dissidence
• ch. 9 Ofensiva Revolucionaria and the Zafra De Los Diez Millones
• Inducing Popular Euphoria, Fraying Fidelismo
• ch. 10 Reel, Real, and Hyper-Real Revolution
• Self-Representation and Political Performance in Everyday Life.

Author/Creator:

Guerra, Lillian , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Visions of power in Cuba: revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971 [by Guerra, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Visions of power in Cuba [by Guerra, L.] (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012] — ISBN 9780807835630; LCCN 2012004090)

Related Series:

Envisioning Cuba

Subjects:

Cuba — History — Revolution, 1959 — Propaganda

Cuba — History — Revolution, 1959 — Public opinion

Cuba — History — 1959-1990

Press and propaganda — Cuba

Public opinion — Cuba

Social psychology — Cuba

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

F1788 .G755 2012

ISBNs:

9780807837368
0807837369
9781469601519
1469601516
9780807835630 [Invalid]
0807835633 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

815652117

Other Control Numbers:

464081 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9622233