Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of emotions on political attitudes and action in Cuba or elsewhere. This book thus offers an important new approach by bringing feelings back into the study of politics and showing how the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century.
Damian Fernandez characterizes the politics of passion as the pursuit of a moral absolute for the nation as a whole. While such a pursuit rallied the Cuban people around...
Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of emotions on political attitu...
Damian J. Fernandez Madeline Camara Madeline Camara Betancourt
"New readings by major exile scholars on the unsettling but weighty question of defining who the Cubans are, what constitutes their national identity, and how they might define themselves as Cubans with respect to their distant island culture. The perspectives presented cover the fields of history, political science, sociology, art, music, literature, anthropology, religion, and gender studies."--Ivan A. Schulman, University of Illinois
This anthology brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who look at one main question: What constitutes Cuban identity? Encouraged to...
"New readings by major exile scholars on the unsettling but weighty question of defining who the Cubans are, what constitutes their national identi...
