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

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Morales-Franceschini, Eric
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.
Summary
"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"--
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9780813948140 hardcover ; acid-free paper
0813948142 hardcover ; acid-free paper
9780813948157 paperback ; acid-free paper
0813948150 paperback ; acid-free paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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