The Desired Revolution And The New Man: Assembling And Negotiating Cultural And Intellectual Practices In Revolutionary Cuba
Resumen del Libro
The deepest social transformation was perhaps created by the peoples own identification with and desire for the revolution. It is my contention that this desire (as Deleuze and Guattari suggest) was partially created by mainstream/pro-revolutionary intellectuals. In order to account for the ways in which the revolutionary desire operates I use a wide-ranging interdisciplinary framework that draws on cultural theorists such as Michel Foucault, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, among others. Within this framework I propose to analyze the cultural transformations in Cuba since the early 1959 vis-a-vis the structures of feeling and politics of affect that dominate the revolutions political apparatus.
