Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822375272

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Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary by Margaret Randall Pdf

Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822359421

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Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary by Margaret Randall Pdf

Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.

Author : Betsy Maclean
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1876175591

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Haydée Santamaría by Betsy Maclean Pdf

Haydee Santamaria led a full and painful life. As one of the female leaders of the Cuban Revolution, she suffered horrible torture in Batista's prisons. After 1959, she established the world-renowned Latin American literary institution, Casa de las Americas. She remained its director for 20 years, providing intellectual and physical refuge for artists and writers in exile from dictatorships. Betsy Maclean has collected both Santamaria's own writings (including her poignant letter to Che on the news of his death) and tributes from others.

Author : Haydée Santamaría
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000139520

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Moncada, Memories of the Attack that Launched the Cuban Revolution by Haydée Santamaría Pdf

Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044197

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Inside the Cuban Revolution by Julia Sweig Pdf

Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822372967

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Exporting Revolution by Margaret Randall Pdf

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.

Author : Teté Puebla,Mary-Alice Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113089549

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Marianas in Combat by Teté Puebla,Mary-Alice Waters Pdf

Brigadier General Teté Puebla, the highest-ranking woman in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, joined the struggle to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1956, when she was fifteen years old. This is her story--from clandestine action in the cities, to serving as an officer

Author : Che Guevara
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853452270

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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Che Guevara Pdf

Reflects the life of an extraordinary and important man. Most significant, Guevara left behind him writing that will endure among the best of revolutionary literature. A step-by-step account of the revolution, also a highly readable personal journal.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822377085

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Che on My Mind by Margaret Randall Pdf

Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me." Randall participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and eventually was forced to leave the country. She arrived in Cuba in 1969, less than two years after Che's death, and lived there until 1980. She became friends with several of Che's family members, friends, and compatriots. In Che on My Mind she reflects on his relationships with his family and fellow insurgents, including Fidel Castro. She is deeply admiring of Che's integrity and charisma and frank about what she sees as his strategic errors. Randall concludes by reflecting on the inspiration and lessons that Che's struggles might offer early twenty-first-century social justice activists and freedom fighters.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018740402

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Women and the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro Pdf

The transformation of women's economic and social status in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803245907

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More Than Things by Margaret Randall Pdf

More Than Things is a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall’s attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we live our lives. There are texts on sex, fashion, food, LGBT rights, automobiles, forgiving, women’s self-image, writing, books, and more. Two of the essays provide glimpses into present-day Cuba and Tunisia. She reflects on her family; her romantic partners; and the revolutionaries, writers, artists, and activists she has known personally and admired: Roque Dalton, Meridel LeSueur, and Haydée Santamaría. Randall’s writings move in unexpected directions, evoked by the “things” and ideas in her life: objects picked up around the world, her children’s names, family heirlooms, artistic practices, dreams, poems, and memories. Elegantly weaving together the personal and the political, More Than Things is a tour de force by one of America’s most formidable and elegiac writers and political activists.

Author : Antoni Kapcia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780325262

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Leadership in the Cuban Revolution by Antoni Kapcia Pdf

Most conventional readings of the Cuban Revolution have seemed mesmerised by the personality and role of Fidel Castro, often missing a deeper political understanding of the Revolution's underlying structures, bases of popular loyalty and ethos of participation. In this ground-breaking work, Antoni Kapcia focuses instead on a wider cast of characters. Along with the more obvious, albeit often misunderstood, contributions from Che Guevara and Raúl Castro, Kapcia looks at the many others who, over the decades, have been involved in decision-making and have often made a significant difference. He interprets their various roles within a wider process of nation-building, demonstrating that Cuba has undergone an unusual, if not unique, process of change. Essential reading for anyone interested in Cuba's history and its future.

Author : Che Guevara
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004062674

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Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Che Guevara Pdf

A first hand account of the military campaigns and political events that culminated in the January 1959 popular insurrection that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship in Cuba. With clarity and humor, Guevara describes his own political education. He explains how the struggle transformed the men and women of the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement led by Fidel Castro. And how these combatants forged a political leadership capable of guiding millions of workers and peasants to open the socialist revolution in the Americas. Guevara's Episodes appears here complete for the first time in English.

Author : Carlos Franqui
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035853758

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Diary of the Cuban Revolution by Carlos Franqui Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UVA:X000420989

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The Youngest Revolution by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez Pdf