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Cuban cultural heritage : a rebel past for a revolutionary nation /

This book shows that understanding Cuba's past and heritage is fundamental to shed light upon its future trajectories. It examines the role that cultural heritage played in the construction of a sense of national identity in post-colonial Cuba, from the Cuban independence from Spain in 1898 up...

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Main Author: Alonso González, Pablo, (Author)
Other Authors: Shackel, Paul A., (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Series:Cultural heritage studies.
Subjects:
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Cuba > History.
Cuba > Social life and customs.
Cuba > Civilization.
Cuba.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Negotiating the past, representing the nation: the contested uses of heritage during the Republic (1898-1959)
  • Heritage as passion: the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1973)
  • The institutionalization of the Cuban heritage field (1973-1990)
  • The reification of ideology as heritage and the return of the nation between 1990 and 2014
  • The office of the city historian of Havana and the nation as heritage after 1990: a path towards reconciliation or towards touristification?
  • The coloniality of heritage in postcolonial Cuba.

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