Cuba and the politics of passion / Damian J. Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández, Damián J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Cuba.

Political culture.

Cuba--Politics and government.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of emotions on political attitudes and action in Cuba or elsewhere. This book thus offers an important new approach by bringing feelings back into the study of politics and showing how the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century. Damián Fernández characterizes the politics of passion as the pursuit of a moral absolute for the nation as a whole. While such a pursuit rallied the Cuban people around charismatic leaders such as Fidel Castro, Fernández finds that it also set the stage for disaffection and disconnection when the grand goal never fully materialized. At the same time, he reveals how the politics of affection-taking care of family and friends outside the formal structures of government-has paradoxically both undermined state regimes and helped them remain in power by creating an informal survival network that provides what the state cannot or will not.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Bringing Back that Loving Feeling: Passion, Affection, and Politics

2. With Feeling Now: The Political Culture of Cuba Reconsidered

3. Emotional Political History: Cuba in the Twentieth Century

4. An Affair of the Heart: Passion, Affection, and Revolution

5. Losing that Loving Feeling: The Regeneration of Passion and Affection

6. Where Did Our Love Go? Emotions and the Politics of lo informal

7. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Passion, Affection, and Civil Society in Transition,

8. Epilogue: Passion and Affection from a Distance

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79879-2

OCLC:

614999828