Che on my mind / Margaret Randall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randall, Margaret, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guevara, Che, 1928-1967.

Guevara, Che.

Guerrillas--Latin America--Biography.

Guerrillas.

Latin America.

Revolutionaries--Latin America--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. She writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me." Randall arrived in Cuba in 1969, less than two years after Che's death, and she lived there until 1980. She became friends with several of Che's family members, friends, and compatriots. In Che on My Mind, she reflects on his relationships with his family and fellow insurgents, including Fidel Castro, as well as on the inspiration and lessons that his struggles might offer early twenty-first-century social justice activists and freedom fighters. Book jacket.

Contents:

A death that leads us back to life

In Cuba, where our lives came together in the everyday

Multiple prisms

Conflicting versions

"Socialism and man in Cuba"

Tender heart and rigorous moral code

Empowerment of the erotic

How the man was made

Che and Fidel

Che and Haydée

Exercising power, exercising solidarity

The question without an answer

War and peace

Revolution and religion

Che's legacy for today's activists

Poetry closes the circle and opens infinite circles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780822355786

0822355787

9780822355922

0822355922

OCLC:

842209200