Cuban Memory Wars
Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
By Michael J. Bustamante
318 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 15 halftones, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6203-9
Published: March 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6202-2
Published: March 2021 -
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Published: February 2021
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Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.
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Michael J. Bustamante is assistant professor of history at Florida International University.
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“Michael Bustamante’s fascinating account of how Cuban history has been interpreted—and contested—by Cubans on and off the island underscores that Cubans have never fallen easily or naturally into just two ideological camps. This book provides a significant reevaluation of how Cubans came to understand the Castro era from their ever-changing political vantage points and why that matters today.”—Maria Cristina Garcia, author of The Refugee Challenge in Post–Cold War America
“Exploring how pivotal events in Cuban history since the Revolution have been narrated and interpreted by supporters and detractors of the revolutionary regime on both sides of the Straits of Florida, Michael Bustamante’s book will be welcomed by both general and academic readers.”—Maria de los Angeles Torres, author of In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the United States