
Exporting Revolution
Cuba's Global Solidarity
Margaret Randall(Author)
Duke University Press
Published on 28. April 2017
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8223-6384-2 (ISBN)
Description
In her new book, Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports. Randall combines personal observations and interviews with literary analysis and examinations of political trends in order to understand what compels a small, poor, and underdeveloped country to offer its resources and expertise. Why has the Cuban health care system trained thousands of foreign doctors, offered free services, and responded to health crises around the globe? What drives Cuba's international adult literacy programs? Why has Cuban poetry had an outsized influence in the Spanish-speaking world? This multifaceted internationalism, Randall finds, is not only one of the Revolution's most central features; it helped define Cuban society long before the Revolution.
Reviews / Votes
"Exporting Revolution [is] another excellent contribution to our understanding of Cuban policymaking compiled by the poet and activist Margaret Randall." - Gavin O'Toole (Latin American Review of Books) "Margaret Randall gives a thoughtful historical analysis of the politics of the island nation, mostly during the Fidel Castro era. . . . Randall lived in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. It's an analysis based on her wealth of experience." - David Steinberg (Albuquerque Journal) "Randall studies internationalism through poetry's perspective but in doing so she succeeds and shines a light on novels, short stories, poetry and essays that she describes as the beginning of a genre of internationalist writing worthy of further study in itself." (Morning Star) "Anyone interested in Cuba, foreign policy, foreign development assistance, and international humanitarianism will find Exporting Revolution of interest. . . . Scholars of all stripes should examine Randall's key argument fully and critically." - Peter M. Sanchez (The Latin Americanist) "A personal take on Cuban internationalism. . . . The greatest contribution lies in chapters 8, 9, and 10, which contain translated short-story excerpts written by Cuban internationalists. The selections would enrich syllabi for courses on Cuban history or global health." - Elizabeth Schwall (The Historian) "[Randall] makes us rethink how foreign aid is conceived and deployed in other countries by focusing on the policies implemented by the Caribbean island. Hers is an interesting contribution to the literature concerned with humanitarian assistance and foreign aid." - Marcus Oliver Golding (H-War, H-Net Reviews) "As a mythopoetic testament ... this recitation of the Cuban Revolution's importance and successes has much to recommend it.... With no impartiality and little pretense, and rich with oral histories, anecdotes, and effort to situate the Cuban revolution's place in the global firmament, this combination memoir, oral history, presentation of work not normally seen, and distinctive political analysis is, like the Cuban Revolution, extraordinary, unique." - Eric Selbin (Left History)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-6384-2 (9780822363842)
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E-Book
03/2017
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€198.99
Available for download
Person
Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including HaydEe SantamarIa, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression and Che on My Mind, and the editor of Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, all also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
1. How These Ideas Took Shape 1
2. Talent and Influence beyond Numbers 22
3. Cuba by Cuba 42
4. The Island 56
5. Cuban Solidarity: Africa 69
6. Cuban Solidarity: Latin America 83
7. Internationalism, Cuban Style 98
8. Emilio in Angoloa 111
9. Nancy in Ethiopia 122
10. Laidi in Zambia 135
11. Educating New Men and Women, Globally 144
12. Cuban Health Care: A Model That Works 159
13. Cuban Health Means World Health 171
14. Sports for Everyone 192
15. What I Learned 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 245
Index 249
1. How These Ideas Took Shape 1
2. Talent and Influence beyond Numbers 22
3. Cuba by Cuba 42
4. The Island 56
5. Cuban Solidarity: Africa 69
6. Cuban Solidarity: Latin America 83
7. Internationalism, Cuban Style 98
8. Emilio in Angoloa 111
9. Nancy in Ethiopia 122
10. Laidi in Zambia 135
11. Educating New Men and Women, Globally 144
12. Cuban Health Care: A Model That Works 159
13. Cuban Health Means World Health 171
14. Sports for Everyone 192
15. What I Learned 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 245
Index 249