Randall Margaret Randall

Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary (eBook, PDF)

She Led by Transgression

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375272
• Artikelnr.: 54672528

Autorenporträt

Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including Che on My Mind, and the translator of When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier's Story, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
1. Before We Begin  1
2. Why Haydée?  11
3. Early Life  31
4. Moncada  53
5. War  81
6. Witness  107
7. Casa de las Américas  127
8. Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Haydée and Che  159
9. The Woman beneath the Myth 177
10. Impossible Possibility: Elegy for Haydée Santamaría  195
Notes  207
Bibliography  217
Index  221