
The Subject of Revolution
Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Jennifer L. Lambe(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 27. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-4696-8115-3 (ISBN)
Description
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theater, and material culture, this book traces the consolidation of the Revolution over two decades in the interface between political and popular culture. The ""subject of Revolution,"" it proposes, should be understood as the evolving synthesis of the imaginaries constructed by its many ""subjects,"" including revolutionary leaders, activists, academics, and ordinary people within and beyond the island's borders.
The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process, as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.
The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process, as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
22 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
616 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-8115-3 (9781469681153)
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Person
Jennifer L. Lambe is associate professor of history at Brown University.