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Titre Memorias de la Revolución (1959-1989): Cuba, el día después...
Auteur Michaëla Grevin
Mir@bel Revue Amerika
Numéro no 22, 2021 Mémoires dans la Caraïbe et l'Amérique latine : entre tradition, modernité et post-modernité. 1920-2020 : un siècle de capitalisme
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier thématique: Mémoires dans la Caraïbe et l'Amérique latine : entre tradition, modernité et post-modernité. 1920-2020 : un siècle de capitalisme
Résumé anglais By overthrowing the Batista dictatorship, in the pay of the United States, Fidel Castro and his companions seek to destroy the colonial structures that remain on the island. While trying to destroy the old order, the Revolution embodies the search for a new path, fundamentally different from the one imposed by the Spanish and later the American empire. This article proposes to relate two very symbolic moments of the Cuban Revolution – its birth and its announced death – that are linked by the sentiment of the apocalypse and that have created the conditions for a possible disconnection: - 1959-1961: outside the dominance of the United States, without yet falling into the lap of the Soviet Union, the Revolution is characterized by an ideological freedom that seems absolute. - 1989-1994: while capitalism penetrates the island again with the Special Period, Cuban artists experience an unprecedented freedom of creation: freed from Soviet dogmatism and still far from the pressures of the capitalist market, they dedicate themselves to an art free of any contingency. These two key moments in the history of the Cuban Revolution open the field of all possible for the Latin American and Caribbean peoples in search of liberation.
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