En la actualidad, los defensores y opositores del rgimen surgido de la Revolucin Cubana se encuentran sumidos en una discusin que trasciende los lmites de la isla y que obliga a cuestionar la historia oficial y las consecuencias que sta ha tenido para el desarrollo de esa nacin. La mquina del olvido explora esas tensiones de la Cuba contempornea a travs de ocho ensayos. Cada uno de ellos enfocado en analizar la experiencia de memoria y olvido desde un ngulo diferente: ideolgico, literario, constitucional, intelectual, socialista, del conflicto entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, de la cultura popular, y de las diversas opciones de futuro que se debaten en la isla y en el exilio. Es ese enfrentamiento entre el modelo de Fidel Castro y las posturas crticas de los jvenes historiadores lo que est construyendo la nueva consciencia cubana y reescribiendo su historia. Esa consciencia crtica frente al discurso nico es lo que despertar (y est despertando) a una sociedad acostumbrada a pasar sus ideas por el tamiz del pensamiento oficial y har que se rebele contra la mquina del olvido que ha legitimado a ese rgimen desde hace ms de medio siglo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This compendium of essays on the history of ideas in Cuba analyzes the birth of Cuban historiography; the political culture in the island prior to the Revolution; the Cuban constitution and its minor influence in countries that have sought to follow the Fidelist model; and the creation of the single discourse of the Castro regime and its determination to survive. Rojas indicates that the debate amongst Cuban intellectuals is on the rise; that if Cuba is to have a promising future a complete transformation is needed--one that generates a new and democratic political system. A step into creating this transformation lies in the development of new historiographic narratives--unconstrained by the official discourse--to encourage the debate in a society accustomed to screening their ideas through the lens of official thinking. But it is not in the established institutions or in the intellectual work of the new generations that change is to be effected. Thanks to their coming in contact with a pluralized idea of the nation and its history, a cultural decolonization has already begun among the residents of the island. It will be those citizens who rebel against the apparatus of oblivion that, for half a century, has legitimized socialism in Cuba.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
ISBN-10
6071116678
ISBN-13
9786071116673
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117356793
Product Key Features
Book Title
Máquina Del Olvido : Mito, Historia Y Poder EN Cuba
Author
Rafael Rojas
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
Spanish
Topic
Latin America / Mexico, Historiography, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Weight
9 Oz
Height
0.7in
Width
5in
Length
9in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F1776.R655 2012
Publication Date
2011-12-01
Target Audience
Trade
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