The "new man" in Cuba : culture and identity in the Revolution / Ana Serra.

• Introduction : The culture that the revolution created -- Speaking at cross purposes : the failed identification between teachers and students in the literacy campaign -- Body versus mind : an intellectual's memoirs expose his negative image -- Harvesting the nation : how Cuba became unified in the historical zafra -- Frustrated mothers, virgin workers, and masked whores : the "new woman" at work -- Toward a revolutionary utopia : fluid identities in a child's account -- Epilogue : Identity and its discontents : Leonardo Padura Fuentes looks back at the new man.

• "The Cuban Revolution not only changed the political regime of the island nation, it also transformed Cuban cultural identity. Che Guevara coined the idea of the "New Man" to represent the unique revolutionary identity that all Cubans were called to take on. In the speeches of the era, the "New Man" adopted different guises according to the political campaign of the day: the literacy worker, the committed intellectual, the hardworking "New Woman," or the heroic sugarcane cutter, among others." "Tracing the rise and fall of the "New Man," Ana Serra examines political speeches and award-winning novels that constructed this new Identity during the formative years of the Castro regime. Serra argues that during the early revolutionary period, writers helped create the identity of the "New Man" while simultaneously criticizing its problematic aspects. Although the writers professed unconditional support for the revolution, their texts contained prophetic insights into the conflicts that the new identity would generate."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Kubanska revolutionen 1959  (sao)

Nationell identitet i litteraturen  (sao)

Litteratur och politik  (sao)

Kubansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

National characteristics, Cuban, in literature.  (LCSH)

Cuban literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Politics and literature  -- Cuba. (LCSH)

National characteristics, Cuban, in literature. 

Cuban literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Cuba  -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Literature and the revolution.

Politics and literature  -- Cuba.

Politics and literature  (LCSH)

Nationalism in literature  (LCSH)

National characteristics in literature  (LCSH)

Kuba  (sao)

Cuba  -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Literature and the revolution. (LCSH)

1945-  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Klassifikation

PQ7378 (LCC)

860.9358 (DDC)