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The Revolution from Within

Autor: Michael J. Bustamante , Jennifer L. Lambe

Número de Páginas: 230

What does the Cuban Revolution look like “from within?" This volume proposes that scholars and observers of Cuba have too long looked elsewhere—from the United States to the Soviet Union—to write the island's post-1959 history. Drawing on previously unexamined archives, the contributors explore the dynamics of sociopolitical inclusion and exclusion during the Revolution's first two decades. They foreground the experiences of Cubans of all walks of life, from ordinary citizens and bureaucrats to artists and political leaders, in their interactions with and contributions to the emerging revolutionary state. In essays on agrarian reform, the environment, dance, fashion, and more, contributors enrich our understanding of the period beginning with the utopic mobilizations of the early 1960s and ending with the 1980 Mariel boatlift. In so doing, they offer new perspectives on the Revolution that are fundamentally driven by developments on the island. Bringing together new historical research with comparative and methodological reflections on the challenges of writing about the Revolution, The Revolution from Within highlights the political stakes attached to Cuban history after...

Paseos por la calle de la amargura

Autor: Guillermo Sheridan

Número de Páginas: 536

Una colección de ensayos, crónicas y ficciones sobre las desventuras de la política mexicana, así como sus personajes y situaciones arquetípicas. Por "la calle de la amargura", estrecha y sobrepoblada, se pasean como si nada lo mismo AMLO que Peña Nieto, los ricachones fastuosos y los abundantes políticos, la tenaz clase media, la selecta realeza de los líderes sindicales y la republicana desvergüenza de gobernadores y legisladores. "La calle de la amargura" conduce también a algunas encrucijadas del pasado reciente. Camina por ella, haciendo una pregunta incómoda, el padre de uno de los 43 de Ayotzinapa. Pasan Octavio Paz y Carlos Fuentes escribiendo a dos voces una crónica epistolar del 68; pasan los agentes secretos de Washington y del Kremlin; Elena Garro va a una fiesta que cambiará su vida; José Revueltas camina hacia la cárcel y Juan Rulfo hacia su soledad. Desde hace años, ante un miedo ambiente que en México empeora a diario, Sheridan practica el raro arte del periodismo como defensa personal, lanzando crítica y diatribas a izquierda y a derecha, siempre con ironía, agria inteligencia y humor mercurial.

Fidel!

Autor: Sheldon B. Liss

Número de Páginas: 240

The author of this book takes a highly original approach to understanding the past three decades of Cuban history–he offers an analysis and interpretation of the prolific writings and speeches of Fidel Castro and of numerous interviews with him. Through Castro’s own words, Sheldon Liss examines the evolution of the Cuban leader’s political and soci

Performances that Change the Americas

Autor: Stuart Alexander Day

Número de Páginas: 249

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas—from Canada to the Southern Cone. Through the study of specific examples from numerous countries, the authors of this volume demonstrate a crucial, shared outlook: they affirm that ordinary people change the direction of history through performance. This project offers concrete, compelling cases that emulate the modus operandi of people like historian Howard Zinn. In the same spirit, the chapters treat marginal groups whose stories underscore the potentially unstoppable and transformative power of united, embodied voices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, performance, art and politics.

Contenido subversivo

Autor: Daniel Pinilla

Número de Páginas: 268

Nos situamos en 2016. Fidel Castro ya no ejerce el poder ejecutivo en Cuba, pero su régimen, perfectamente engrasado, le sobrevivirá. No se atisba cambio alguno en el último país comunista de Occidente. Semanas antes de que Barack Obama realice su histórica visita a La Habana, dos editores españoles ponen en marcha un ambicioso proyecto independiente enfocado en publicar a autores cubanos contemporáneos y tratar de detectar antes que nadie el próximo fenómeno literario salido de la mayor de las Antillas. Para lograrlo huyen de la censura previa y entran en contacto con todo tipo de voces, oficialistas y también disidentes. Desconocen en qué avispero se están metiendo. La actitud del Gobierno Castrista, siempre contundente a la hora de controlar todo lo relacionado con la cultura, parece comprensiva con la iniciativa... hasta que empiezan a producirse señales de alerta y los impresores se colocan en el epicentro de una oscura trama de intereses geopolíticos e información clasificada que amenaza con acabar con el actual equilibro de poderes en el Caribe y en toda Hispanoamérica. Narrada de forma trepidante, desde dos puntos de vista contrapuestos y con una...

Gabriel García Márquez

Autor: Gerald Martin

Número de Páginas: 689

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.

Documentación Iberoamericana

Número de Páginas: 1930

Includes indexes, with special t.p.

The Playboy Interviews

Autor: Stephen Randall

Número de Páginas: 488

While there have been many great films, only a few directors have achieved such facility with the filmmaking medium. In this collection of remarkably candid interviews, seventeen of the screen's most widely acclaimed and creative filmmakers discuss what drives and inspires them. These revealing, thought-provoking, and highly personal interviews, range from Roman Polanski's thoughts on the murder of his wife in the Manson Family massacre to Oliver Stone's frank discussions about the challeges he faced in creating his memorable films.

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