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Remembering Che

Author : Aleida March
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644212066

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Remembering Che by Aleida March Pdf

Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. When Aleida March first met Che Guevara, she was a twenty-year-old combatant from the provinces of Cuba, he an already legendary revolutionary and larger-than-life leader. And yet there was another, more human side to Che, one Aleida was given special access to, first as his trusted compañera and later as the love of his life. With great immediacy and poignancy, Aleida recounts the story of their epic romance—their fitful courtship against the backdrop of the Cuban revolutionary war, their marriage at the war’s end and the birth of their four children, up through Che’s tragic assassination in Bolivia less than ten years later. Featuring excerpts from their letters, nearly one hundred never-before-seen photographs from their private collection, and a moving short story Che wrote for Aleida, here is an intimate look at the man behind the legend and the tenacious, courageous woman who knew him best—a story of passionate love, wrenching sacrifice, and unwavering heroism.

Remembering Che

Author : Aleida March de la Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 0987228307

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Remembering Che by Aleida March de la Torre Pdf

Che Guevara's widow reveals the story of a great revolutionary romance, tragically cut short by Che's assassination in Bolivia.

The Radicality of Love

Author : Srećko Horvat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745691176

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The Radicality of Love by Srećko Horvat Pdf

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love? Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it seems that in the 21st century of new technologies of the self (Grindr, Tinder, online dating, etc.) we are faced with a hyperinflation of sex, not love. By going back to the sexual revolution of the October Revolution and its subsequent repression, to Che's dilemma between love and revolutionary commitment and to the period of '68 (from communes to terrorism) and its commodification in late capitalism, the Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat gives a possible answer to the question of why it is that the most radical revolutionaries like Lenin or Che were scared of the radicality of love. What is so radical about a seemingly conservative notion of love and why is it anything but conservative? This short book is a modest contribution to the current upheavals around the world - from Tahrir to Taksim, from Occupy Wall Street to Hong Kong, from Athens to Sarajevo - in which the question of love is curiously, surprisingly, absent.

Shakespeare in Swahililand

Author : Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374714444

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Shakespeare in Swahililand by Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD Pdf

An exploration of Shakespeare as a global poet Shakespeare in Swahililand tells the unexpected literary history of Shakespeare’s influence in East Africa. Beginning with Victorian-era expeditions in which Shakespeare’s works were the sole reading material carried into the interior, the Bard has been a vital touchstone throughout the region. His plays were printed by liberated slaves as one of the first texts in Swahili, performed by Indian laborers while they built the Uganda railroad, used to argue for native rights, and translated by intellectuals, revolutionaries, and independence leaders. Weaving together stories of explorers staggering through Africa’s interior, eccentrics living out their dreams on the savanna, decadent émigrés, Cold War intrigues, and even Che Guevara, Edward Wilson-Lee—a Cambridge lecturer raised in Kenya—tallies Shakespeare’s influence in Zanzibar, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Sudan. Traveling through these countries, he speaks with everyone from theater directors and academics to soldiers and aid workers, discovering not only cultural dimensions traceable to Shakespeare's plays but also an overwhelming insistence that these works provide a key insight into the region. An astonishing work of empathy and historical vision, Shakespeare in Swahililand gets at the heart of what makes Shakespeare so universal and the role that his writings have played in thinking about what it means to be human.

The Semiotics of Che Guevara

Author : Maria-Carolina Cambre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472505293

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The Semiotics of Che Guevara by Maria-Carolina Cambre Pdf

Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "Guerrillero Heroico" has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba. This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore how an image can take on cultural force in diverse parts of the globe and legitimate varying positions and mass action in unexpected global political contexts. Analytically, the book develops a comparative analysis of how images become attached to a range of meanings that are absolutely inseparable from their contexts of use. Addressing the need for a fluid and responsive approach to the study of visual meaning-making, this book relies on multiple methodologies such as semiotics, research-creation, multimodal discourse analysis, ethnography and phenomenology and shows how each method has something to offer toward the understanding of the social and cultural work of images in our globally oriented cultures.

Che Guevara

Author : Allan Todd
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399042772

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Che Guevara by Allan Todd Pdf

Although Che Guevara was murdered almost sixty years ago, the famous red-and-black image of him is still widely seen around the world: at leftist political demonstrations and, ironically - given his strong opposition to capitalism - on many commercial products. However, he was a controversial figure during his lifetime - and remains so today. On both the political left and the political right, attitudes to him vary widely: while some see him as a romantic, highly-principled and legendary fighter for the world’s poor and exploited masses, others depict him either as an unrealistic and thus irrelevant adventurer, or even as a ruthless and cold-blooded butcher. Consequently, biographies about him over the decades have ranged from the overly sympathetic, to the extremely hostile. As well as covering aspects of his family life and his loves - and his early, sometimes less-than-revolutionary, attitudes - this biography, as expected, deals with those areas for which Che is best known. These include his adventurous explorations, as a young man on a motorbike, of Latin and Central America; his leadership and bravery during Cuba’s Revolutionary War; his practical and theoretical contributions to the conduct of guerrilla warfare; and his emergence as an international revolutionary legend who inspired radical young people in the 1960s, and who continues to inspire rebellious people around the world today. However, this biography also explores other aspects of Che’s life which are not so well-known. From an early age, he developed a keen love of reading, covering an eclectic mix of adventure stories, poetry, history and philosophy - and, from his teens, he began a lifetime habit of making notes on what he read. He also became a strong chess player, able enough to draw with one of the world’s leading grandmasters. Even during guerrilla campaigns, he managed to maintain those loves. Since his murder, he has emerged as an original contributor to Marxist economics and philosophy. It was his wide-ranging studies that led him to become an outspoken opponent of the ‘orthodox’ communism followed in the Soviet Union - and of its Cold War foreign policy of ‘peaceful coexistence’. His tolerance of, and willingness to work with, those having different views saw him accused of Maoism - and even Trotskyism. More accurately, Che has bequeathed the unique strand of revolutionary socialism known as ‘Guevarism’.

Remembering Aldo Moro

Author : Ruth Glynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351551533

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Remembering Aldo Moro by Ruth Glynn Pdf

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy's experience of political violence in the period known as the 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983). This uniquely interdisciplinary volume explores the evolving legacy of Moro's death in the Italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in the fields of political science, social anthropology, philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new understandings of the events of 1978 and explain their significance and relevance to present-day Italian culture and society.

Remembering the Renaissance

Author : Kenneth Gouwens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004109692

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Remembering the Renaissance by Kenneth Gouwens Pdf

This study, drawing extensively upon manuscript sources, provides the first comprehensive account of how Rome's humanist community coped with the 1527 sack of the city, an event traditionally viewed as signaling the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.

Remembering Katyn

Author : Alexander Etkind,Rory Finnin,Uilleam Blacker,Julie Fedor,Simon Lewis,Maria Mälksoo,Matilda Mroz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745662961

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Remembering Katyn by Alexander Etkind,Rory Finnin,Uilleam Blacker,Julie Fedor,Simon Lewis,Maria Mälksoo,Matilda Mroz Pdf

Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe. This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as site and symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn both incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters an emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines the strange impact of the 2010 plane crash that claimed the lives of Poland’s leaders en route to Katyn. Drawing on novels and films, debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested past in a region that will define Europe’s future.

The Cuban Revolution Into The 1990s

Author : Sobre America,Centro De Estudios Sobre America,Ronald H Chilcote,Centro De Estudios Sobre America "Attn: Luis Suarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000315745

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The Cuban Revolution Into The 1990s by Sobre America,Centro De Estudios Sobre America,Ronald H Chilcote,Centro De Estudios Sobre America "Attn: Luis Suarez Pdf

The Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959 in the face of official U.S. opposition, an abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, and an economic embargo. Cuban dependence on the United States dated to the U.S. occupation of the island from 1898 to 1901 and subsequent interventions in 1906-1909, 1912, and 1917. Historically, the Cuban economy has depended on the export of sugar. Before the revolution the United States imported the largest share of Cuban sugar; after 1960 the Soviet Union assumed this role, and in exchange Cuba had to import its fuel and some of its foodstuffs, raw materials, and capital goods.

Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa

Author : Redie Bereketeab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000199918

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Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa by Redie Bereketeab Pdf

This book critically interrogates the neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model and proposes a popular progressive model centred around the lived realities of African societies. The neoliberal interventionist model assumed prominence and universal hegemony following the demise of state socialism at the end of the Cold War. However, this book argues that it is a primarily short-term, top-down approach that imposes Western norms and values on conflict and post-conflict societies. By contrast, the popular progressive model espoused by this book is based on stringent examination and analysis of the reality of the socio-economic development, structures, institutions, politics and cultures of developing societies. In doing so, it combines bottom-up and top-down, popular and elite, and long-term evolutionary processes of societal construction as a requisite for enduring peacebuilding and statebuilding. By comparing and contrasting the dominant neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model with a popular progressive model, the book seeks to empower locals (both elites and masses) to sit in the driver’s seat and construct their own societies. As such, it is an important contribution to scholars, activists, policymakers, civil society organisations, NGOs and all those who are concerned with peace, stability and development across Africa and other developing countries.

Cuba: Russian Roulette of the World

Author : Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475966534

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Cuba: Russian Roulette of the World by Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol Pdf

When Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries took over Cuba in 1958, they promised welfare and prosperity to the Cuban people. Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmols father, Leonardo, supported the revolution sopenly that he was often targeted by Gen. Fulgencio Batistas regime. Like so many others, hed been deceived to believe that Castro could be just like a certain artist depicted hima resurrected Christ. Following in his Fathers footsteps, Julio Antonio also waged a war for freedom, becoming a military leader at twelve years old. Castro, impressed with the youths maturity and eloquence, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Young Commandos, personally handing him a gun. But when Julio Antonio realized that the revolution had serious shortcomings, he converted himself into a spy and began stealing secrets from the regime. When he takes the first pictures of the Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, the world almost goes to war. Join a freedom fighter who barely escaped from the island as he recalls the early days of the revolution and stealing secrets in Cuba: Russian Roulette of the World.

How To Be Great

Author : James Adonis
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781925203790

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How To Be Great by James Adonis Pdf

What can we learn from the great leaders of the past? In this unique and engaging volume, James Adonis, one of Australia’s best-known leadership educators, shows how we can apply the lessons of history to the challenges of the present. Drawing on examples from Walt Disney to Joan of Arc, Adonis explores the many different aspects of good leadership, illustrating how history’s most successful leaders have used particular leadership styles to their advantage, and explaining how we can use those same techniques in the modern workplace. The key to good leadership? Adaptability. Certain situations may require Benjamin Franklin’s pragmatism, Dorothea Dix’s dynamism, or something altogether different – the most important lesson is that the very best leaders are able to adjust their style to suit any given situation. Covering more than fifty historical leaders, ranging from Julius Caesar and Eleanor Roosevelt to less familiar figures such as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, US President James Madison and environmental activist Wangari Maathai, How To Be Great is an entertaining and insightful leadership book with a difference.

A Social History of Cuba's Protestants

Author : James A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498581080

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A Social History of Cuba's Protestants by James A. Baer Pdf

This book presents a religious and social history of Cuba’s development as a nation and its relationship with the United States by examining the role of Presbyterian and other Protestatn churches before and after the revolution in 1959.

Che in Verse

Author : Gavin O'Toole,Georgina Jiménez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106016689017

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Che in Verse by Gavin O'Toole,Georgina Jiménez Pdf

Celebrating one of the greatest revolutionary and romantic figures in history, this collection is the first to reveal English-language poems and songs about Che Guevara. Fully exploring the Latin American figure through the written word, this study defies superficial differences, revealing instead the universal themes that poets of all nations and languages share.