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Author Routon, Kenneth

Title Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination
Published Florida : University Press of Florida, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. The Magic of the Revolution; 2. The Eye and the Tongue; 3. The Opacity of Power; 4. Conjuring the Past; 5. Tying the Yuma to the Stick; 6. The Cult of the Profane; 7. The Prophetics of Revolution; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary Despite its hard-nosed emphasis on the demystifying realism of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the political imagery of the Cuban revolution--and the state that followed--conjures up its own magical seductions and fantasies of power. In this fascinating account, Kenneth Routon shows how magic practices and political culture are entangled in Cuba in unusual and intimate ways. Routon describes not only how the monumentality of the state arouses magical sensibilities and popular images of its hidden powers, but he also explores the ways in which revolutionary officialdom has, in recent years, tacitl
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political culture -- Cuba
Socialism -- Cuba
Exceptionalism -- Cuba
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Exceptionalism
Political culture
Politics and government
Socialism
SUBJECT Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034605
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005008293
Subject Cuba
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010001921
ISBN 9780813043180
0813043182
9780813038858
0813038855