"<i>Exporting Revolution </i>[is]<i> </i>another excellent contribution to our understanding of Cuban policymaking compiled by the poet and activist Margaret Randall."  - Gavin O'Toole (Latin American Review of Books) "Margaret Randall gives a thoughtful historical analysis of the politics of the island nation, mostly during the Fidel Castro era. . . . Randall lived in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. It’s an analysis based on her wealth of experience." - David Steinberg (Albuquerque Journal) "Randall studies internationalism through poetry’s perspective but in doing so she succeeds and shines a light on novels, short stories, poetry and essays that she describes as the beginning of a genre of internationalist writing worthy of further study in itself." (Morning Star) “Anyone interested in Cuba, foreign policy, foreign development assistance, and international humanitarianism will find <i>Exporting Revolution</i> of interest. . . . Scholars of all stripes should examine Randall’s key argument fully and critically.” - Peter M. Sánchez (The Latin Americanist) "A personal take on Cuban internationalism. . . . The greatest contribution lies in chapters 8, 9, and 10, which contain translated short-story excerpts written by Cuban internationalists. The selections would enrich syllabi for courses on Cuban history or global health." - Elizabeth Schwall (The Historian) "[Randall] makes us rethink how foreign aid is conceived and deployed in other countries by focusing on the policies implemented by the Caribbean island. Hers is an interesting contribution to the literature concerned with humanitarian assistance and foreign aid." - Marcus Oliver Golding (H-War, H-Net Reviews) "As a mythopoetic testament … this recitation of the Cuban Revolution's importance and successes has much to recommend it.… With no impartiality and little pretense, and rich with oral histories, anecdotes, and effort to situate the Cuban revolution's place in the global firmament, this combination memoir, oral history, presentation of work not normally seen, and distinctive political analysis is, like the Cuban Revolution, extraordinary, unique."  - Eric Selbin (Left History)

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.
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Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society.
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Acknowledgments  ix
1. How These Ideas Took Shape  1
2. Talent and Influence beyond Numbers  22
3. Cuba by Cuba  42
4. The Island  56
5. Cuban Solidarity: Africa  69
6. Cuban Solidarity: Latin America  83
7. Internationalism, Cuban Style  98
8. Emilio in Angoloa  111
9. Nancy in Ethiopia  122
10. Laidi in Zambia  135
11. Educating New Men and Women, Globally  144
12. Cuban Health Care: A Model That Works  159
13. Cuban Health Means World Health  171
14. Sports for Everyone  192
15. What I Learned  205
Notes  223
Bibliography  245
Index  249
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822369042
Publisert
2017-04-28
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

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Biografisk notat

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.