Las Cruzadas

For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...

José Álvarez Junco analiza en esta obra el proceso de construcción de la identidad española a lo largo del siglo XIX. La idea de España, previamente formada alrededor de la monarquía y el catolicismo, se vio afianzada a principios de la edad contemporánea con la llamada "guerra de independencia" contra los franceses, y las elites intelectuales emprendieron a continuación su construcción cultural en términos que se adaptaban a la era de las naciones. Sin embargo, esta tarea se vio obstaculizada muy pronto a causa de la continua inestabilidad política, el atraso económico, la...

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Este libro indaga la experiencia de l@s prisioner@s politic@s bajo regimenes dictatoriales en Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina durante la segunda parte del siglo 20. El analisis ilumina ciertos eventos singulares ocurridos en las mazmorras de la dictadura, tales como fugas y liberaciones, para pensar el impacto del imaginario revolucionario en la construccion de la subjetividad politica, las narrativas sobre la militancia de izquierda y la memoria historica. Estos eventos carcelarios significaron el momento de mayor fortaleza y mayor debilidad del proyecto revolucionario: por un lado, desafiaron...