Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation Alonso Gonzlez Pablo
Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation Alonso Gonzlez Pablo The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial CubaDuring Fidel…
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Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation Alonso Gonzlez Pablo
The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial CubaDuring Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols. Starting with independence from Spain in 1898 and moving through Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014, Pablo Alonso Gonzlez illustrates how political and ideological shifts have influenced ideas about heritage By changing uses of the past in the present, they were able to shift ideologies, power relations, epistemological conceptions, and economic contexts into the Cuba we know today.Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba.