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Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought: The Elusive Present
Paperback
Caribbean HistoryGeneral Political Science
ISBN13: 9781683404262
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How the temporalities of past, future, and present have been used in Cuban political rhetoric and expressed in Cuban culture
In this fascinatinganalysis of political discourse in Cuban culture, María de los Ángeles Torres
focuses on how the concept of time has been employed by different political
with authoritarianism, Torres argues, an emphasis on human actions in the
present is important for a more democratic political culture, and she searches
over a century of Cuban thought for this perspective. Delving into political texts and
essays, literature, and art, Torres puts theories of temporalities in
conversation with the Cuban experience. Torres closely examines the use of time
and its political implications in Fidel Castro's
History Will Absolve Me speech, the writings of Jose Martí and Che Guevara,
the poetry of Eliseo Diego and the Orígenes group, and paintings and
performance art by Cuban exiles Nereida García Ferraz, María Martínez-Cañas,
and Tania Bruguera.
Recent events in Cuba
have placed the search for democracy and social justice center stage, and
Torres also studies the temporalities underpinning these
movements, asking whether these projects are providing alternatives to overused
past and future tropes. She suggests ways of thinking for today's activists,
encouraging them to remember history and imagine new possibilities while
cultivating space for human agency now.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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