The Subject of Revolution

“Lambe thoughtfully explores the ways in which Cuban and revolutionary identities have been negotiated within and outside of Cuba since 1959. . . . Recommended.”—CHOICE

“In this pathbreaking cultural history, Lambe studies how Cubans scripted, televised, posted, filmed, or disseminated through radio wavebands their contradictory understandings of 'the Revolution,' producing themselves as the subjects of the very process they sought to encapsulate. Knowledge production about ideal revolutionary subjects, forever in the making, crafted the actors who narrated the Revolution.”—Alejandro de la Fuente, author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

“Lambe approaches her subject from a distinctive interpretative angle, almost a meta-angle. This highly innovative work will no doubt shake up how we study and conceive of the Cuban Revolution and perhaps revolution more broadly.”—Eric Zolov, author of The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties

“A book that goes beyond the conventional readings and a priori assumptions that bedevil cultural studies approaches to Cuba . . . the research is excellent and pertinent.”—Antoni Kapcia, author of A Short History of the Revolutionary Cuba