(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear PILAS Subscribers,
A new publication from Duke University Press
Free postage to UK customers
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/exporting-revolution
Exporting
Revolution
Cuba's Global Solidarity
Margaret Randall
"Cuba’s internationalist record since it gained independence is utterly without parallel, a record even more remarkable on the part of a small country under unremitting assault
by the global superpower. This highly instructive account by a poet immersed in Cuban culture, and deeply familiar with Cuban society, raises critical issues that all should ponder, Americans in particular."– Noam Chomsky
"In
Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall turns cold war dogma on its head, showing how the small and blockaded country of Cuba was able to marshal its resources and the remarkable solidarity of its people to offer disaster relief, medical care, and literacy
classes in countries far beyond its borders. Randall’s deeply moving account gives us hope that an internationalism grounded in generosity could be an alternative to a global order ruled by economic and military might." –Sujatha Fernandes, author of
Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
In her new book,
Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports. Randall combines
personal observations and interviews with literary analysis and examinations of political trends in order to understand what compels a small, poor, and underdeveloped country to offer its resources and expertise. Why has the Cuban health care system trained
thousands of foreign doctors, offered free services, and responded to health crises around the globe? What drives Cuba's international adult literacy programs? Why has Cuban poetry had an outsized influence in the Spanish-speaking world? This multifaceted
internationalism, Randall finds, is not only one of the Revolution's most central features; it helped define Cuban society long before the Revolution.
Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression and Che on My Mind, and the editor of
Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, all also published by Duke University Press.
Duke University Press | April 2017 | 280pp | 9780822369042 | Paperback | £21.99*
20% discount with this code: CSL417EXPR**
*Price subject to change.
**Offer excludes the USA, Canada & South America
Author and independent bookshop blog - Bookscombined.com
Follow us on Twitter
@CAP_Ltd, Facebook
Combined Academic Publishers