Fighting over Fidel (eBook)

The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution

Rafael Rojas (Autor)

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2015
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8002-7 (ISBN)

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How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro's revolution.Setting his narrative against the backdrop of the ideological confrontation of the Cold War and the breakdown of relations between Washington and Havana, Rafael Rojas examines the lives and writings of such figures as Waldo Frank, Carleton Beals, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and Jose Yglesias. He describes how Castro's Cuba was hotly debated in publications such as the New York Times, Village Voice, Monthly Review, and Dissent, and how Cuban socialism became a rallying cry for groups such as the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the Hispanic Left.Fighting over Fidel shows how intellectuals in New York interpreted and wrote about the Cuban experience, and how the Left's enthusiastic embrace of Castro's revolution ended in bitter disappointment by the close of the explosive decade of the 1960s.

Autor

Rafael Rojas is professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City. He is one of Cuba's most distinguished cultural critics and a renowned scholar of Latin American history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2015
• Übersetzer: Carl Good
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Afro-Cuban • Allen Ginsberg • American imperialism • American Left • American Nations • Amiri Baraka • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • Armando Hart • assassination • authoritarianism • Black Nationalism • Black Power • Capitalism • Carleton Beals • Carlos Franqui • Censorship • Che Guevara • Colonialism • communism • communist state • Criticism • cuban exile • Cuban Revolution • cubans • C. Wright Mills • Decolonization • Democratic Socialism • Dialectical and Historical Materialism • Dictatorship • Eastern Bloc • Eastern Europe • editorial • Eric Hobsbawm • Fair Play for Cuba Committee • Fidel Castro • Frantz Fanon • Fulgencio Batista • Guevarism • Guillermo Cabrera Infante • Hannah Arendt • hegemony • Hippie • Huber Matos • Ideology • imperialism • Jean-Paul Sartre • John F. Kennedy • Latin America • lawrence ferlinghetti • left-wing politics • Leo Huberman • Louis Althusser • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • McCarthyism • Mexican Revolution • Michael Walzer • Nationalization • newspaper • Nikita Khrushchev • Norman Mailer • Pacifism • Paul Sweezy • Perry Anderson • Persecution • Platt Amendment • Poetry • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Prose • Publication • Public sphere • Racism • Radicalization • real socialism • Revolution • Robin Blackburn • Slavery • Sovereignty • Sovietization • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Stokely Carmichael • Tad Szulc • The Marxists • The New York Times • Theodore Draper • The Village Voice • third world • Totalitarianism • Trotskyism • two Americas • waldo frank • Walker Evans • Westphalian Sovereignty • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8002-5 / 1400880025
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8002-7 / 9781400880027