What does the Cuban Revolution look like “from within?" This volume proposes that scholars and observers of Cuba have too long looked elsewhere—from the United States to the Soviet Union—to write the island's post-1959 history. Drawing on previously unexamined archives, the contributors explore the dynamics of sociopolitical inclusion and exclusion during the Revolution's first two decades. They foreground the experiences of Cubans of all walks of life, from ordinary citizens and bureaucrats to artists and political leaders, in their interactions with and contributions to the emerging revolutionary state. In essays on agrarian reform, the environment, dance, fashion, and more, contributors enrich our understanding of the period beginning with the utopic mobilizations of the early 1960s and ending with the 1980 Mariel boatlift. In so doing, they offer new perspectives on the Revolution that are fundamentally driven by developments on the island. Bringing together new historical research with comparative and methodological reflections on the challenges of writing about the Revolution, The Revolution from Within highlights the political stakes attached to Cuban history after 1959.
Contributors. Michael J. Bustamante, María A. Cabrera Arús, María del Pilar Díaz Castañón, Ada Ferrer, Alejandro de la Fuente, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Lillian Guerra, Jennifer L. Lambe, Jorge Macle Cruz, Christabelle Peters, Rafael Rojas, Elizabeth Schwall, Abel Sierra Madero
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Stakes of the Field
- 1. Cuba’s Revolution from Within: The Politics of Historical Paradigms
- 2. The New Text of the Revolution
- 3. Writing the Revolution’s History out of Closed Archives? Cuban Archival Laws and Access to Information
- Part II. Case Studies: The Revolution from Within
- 4. Searching for the Messiah: Staging Revolution in the Sierra Maestra, 1956–1959
- 5. “We Demand, We Demand . . .”: Cuba, 1959: The Paradoxes of Year 1
- 6. Geotransformación: Geography and Revolution in Cuba from the 1950s to the 1960s
- 7. Between Espíritu and Conciencia: Cabaret and Ballet Developments in 1960s Cuba
- 8. When the “New Man” Met the “Old Man”: Guevara, Nyerere, and the Roots of Latin-Africanism
- 9. The Material Promise of Socialist Modernity: Fashion and Domestic Space in the 1970s
- 10. Anniversary Overload? Memory Fatigue at Cuba’s Socialist Apex
- 11. “Here, Everyone’s Got Huevos, Mister!”: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Collective Violence in Cuba during the Mariel Exodus
- Part III. Concluding Reflections
- 12. Cuba 1959 / Haiti 1804: On History and Caribbean Revolution
- 13. La Ventolera: Ruptures, Persistence, and the Historiography of the Cuban Revolution
- 14. Whither the Empire?
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