Cuban Palimpsests: Volume 19

by José Quiroga

Book Overview

Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world's attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly defined national and collective memory that led directly from a colonial past to a utopian future, but this narrative came to a halt in the early 1990s. The collapse of Cuba's sponsor, the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War preceded the so- called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642141
• ISBN13: 9780816642144
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"