Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation

by Pablo Alonso Gonzalez

The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial Cuba

During Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols. By changing uses of the past in the present, they were able to shift ideologies, power relations, epistemological conceptions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813056632
• ISBN13: 9780813056630
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"