The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution

Book Review| February 01 2021 The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. By Clayfield, Anna. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 204 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Jonathan C. Brown Jonathan C. Brown University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 178–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796781 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan C. Brown; The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 178–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796781 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Anna Clayfield's primary objective in this book is to explain the longevity of the Cuban revolutionary regime, now going into its 62nd year. Following Michel Foucault, she examines the official discourse of the revolution's leadership since 1959 that emphasizes the guerrilla roots of Cuba's struggle against long odds. The author calls this guerrillerismo. That rhetoric, especially emanating from the speeches of Fidel Castro, locates these guerrilla roots even further back than the 1950s. He and his acolytes also include the resistance of the native Taino to Spanish conquerors. The nineteenth-century independentistas Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, José Martí, and Antonio Maceo carried out guerrilla warfare in the very same mountains and forests where Fidel's rebels fought.Such an analysis ignores other explanations for the revolution's longevity. It says little about the security apparatus that the KGB (State Security Committee) helped set up,... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 You do not currently have access to this content

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