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Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination

Despite its hard-nosed emphasis on the demystifying realism of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the political imagery of the Cuban revolution--and the state that followed--conjures up its own magical seductions and fantasies of power. In this fascinating account, Kenneth Routon shows how magic practices a...

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Autor principal: Routon, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. The Magic of the Revolution; 2. The Eye and the Tongue; 3. The Opacity of Power; 4. Conjuring the Past; 5. Tying the Yuma to the Stick; 6. The Cult of the Profane; 7. The Prophetics of Revolution; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. 
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