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By Ana Serra

 
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 not just introduced Fidel Castro to strength, it remodeled Cuban cultural identification, with a brand new thought of “Cubanness” for women and men that Che Guevara outlined because the “New Man.” In Serra’s exam of political speeches and award-winning novels that perpetuated this new identification through the adolescence of the Castro regime, she strains the increase and fall of the “New Man,” arguing that writers in this interval concurrently contributed to id construction whereas criticizing its challenging features, while they making a song the praises of the regime. The New guy in Cuba is an in-depth dialogue of cultural politics and the politics of tradition emerging--evidenced by way of within the relentless hope of Cuban writers, artists, and intellectuals to create a “New guy” and carry tight to a progressive spirit. The authors Serra analyzes professed unconditional help for the revolution, but their texts contained prophetic insights into the conflicts that the recent id might generate, and motivated fresh literary works that deconstruct the “New Man.”  
Grounded in poststructuralist theories, together with feminist, gender, and cultural reports, the booklet specializes in 5 pivotal works of the interval: Volunteer Teacher (1962), Memories of Underdevelopment (1965), The little ones Say Goodbye (1968), Sacchario (1970), and The final girl and the following Combat (1971), displaying how every one of those works responds to a selected crusade, second of main issue, or ideological approach. extra, the epilogue translates 4 fresh novels via Leonardo Padura Fuentes as overtly criticizing the hot guy. this is often the 1st monograph to make to be had to English readers the Spanish literary and political texts that laid the root for innovative tradition and id yet have been nearly overlooked as a result Cuban Revolution’s debatable historical past. Serra’s learn of a bit defined cultural notion is helping elucidate the resilience of the revolution to this day.
 

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Indirect education, or emulation, was supposed to take place between teachers and peasants, but also among the teachers themselves. As the main character in Maestra demonstrates, volunteers who had some misgivings about the Revolution met others whose model behavior impressed them to such an extent that they allowed themselves to be recruited unconditionally. Among those models, the teachers who perished in armed confrontations with rebels in the area achieved the status of heroes for all volunteers.

Pereira illustrates the fact that, while revolutionary literature is historically situated and therefore calls for a contextualized reading, a theoretical framework allows the critic to articulate several possible readings of the texts that transcend the original ideological purpose for which they were conceived. 14 The rest of the novels studied in this book have escaped critical attention almost entirely, except for a few reviews and fresh responses written at the time of the novels’ publication, or general comments included in books on the period.

2). Though the figures in the picture appear relaxed, the setting seems contrived. In Fig. 2. A photograph of a volunteer teacher and students in the Literacy Campaign, which appeared in In the Spirit of Wandering Teachers: Cuban Literacy Campaign, 1961/Con el espíritu de los maestros ambulantes: La campaña de alfabetización cubana, 1961, ed. Alexandra Keeble, p. 30. Reprinted by permission of Ocean Press. 38 The “New Man” in Cuba the foreground of the picture there is a fence of barbed wire. In the background there is a hut with a straw roof.

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