The epic of Cuba Libre : the mambí, mythopoetics, and liberation / Éric Morales-Franceschini.

Author/creator Morales-Franceschini, Eric author.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Copyright Date©2022
Descriptionxi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Cuban literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Revolutionaries in literature.
Revolutionaries in popular culture.
Archetype (Psychology) in literature.
Révolutionnaires dans la littérature.
Cuba--History. --Insurrection, 1868-1878. --Literature and the insurrection.
Cuba--History. --Revolution, 1879-1880. --Literature and the revolution.
Cuba--History. --Revolution, 1895-1898. --Literature and the revolution.

SeriesNew world studies
New World studies. ^A325511
Contents Introduction: Epic of the dispossessed -- The epic marooned: Blackness and the desire called Cuba libre -- ¡Empínate!: of motherhood, mimicry, and the mambisa -- The epic travestied: choteo and the mambí as populist trickster -- ¡Al machete!: on epic violence -- The epic (de)sacralized: sacrifice and the specter of the camp -- Epilogue: On moral equivalence in the twenty-first century.
Abstract "An exposition and analysis of how the legend of the Cuban freedom fighter has been retold and manifested in Cuban literature, film, public monuments, and even its national currency"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Morales-Franceschini, Éric. Epic of Cuba libre Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813948164
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021061602
ISBN9780813948140 hardcover ; acid-free paper
ISBN0813948142 hardcover ; acid-free paper
ISBN9780813948157 paperback ; acid-free paper
ISBN0813948150 paperback ; acid-free paper
ISBNelectronic book

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