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Four decades ago the Cuban revolution captured the worlds attention andimagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical.Within Cuba the state developed a strictly defined national and collectivememory that led directly from a colonial past to a utopian future but thisnarrative came to a halt in the early 1990s. The collapse of Cubas sponsorthe Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War preceded the so called SpecialPeriod in Times of Peace a euphemistic phrase that masked the genuine anxietyshared by leaders and people about the nations future.In Cuban Palimpsests Jose Quiroga explores the sites both physical andimaginative where memory bears upon Cubas collective history in ways thatilluminate this extended moment of uncertainty. Crossing geographicalpolitical and cultural borders Quiroga moves with ease between Cuba Miamiand New York. He traces generational shifts within the exile communitycontrasts Havanas cultural richness with its economic impoverishment followsthe cloakanddagger narratives of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary spyfiction and film and documents the worlds ongoing fascination with Cubanculture.From the nostalgic photographs of Walker Evans to the iconic stature of FidelCastro from the literary expressions of despair to the beat of Cuban musicalrhythms from the haunting legacy of artist Ana Mendieta to the death of CeliaCruz and the reburial of Che Guevara Cuban Palimpsests memorializes theruins of Cubas past and offers a powerful meditation on its enigmatic placewithin the new world order.Jose Quiroga is professor and department chair of Spanish and PortugueseatEmory University. He is the author of Understanding Octavio Paz andTropics of Desire Interventions from Queer Latino America. «
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