Solve, Struggle, Invent
Rachel Nolan: Cuba Speaks, 6 June 2024
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
by Elizabeth Dore.
Apollo, 341 pp., £10.99, August 2023,978 1 80328 381 4 Show More
by Elizabeth Dore.
Apollo, 341 pp., £10.99, August 2023,
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated by Frank Wynne and Rahul Bery.
Fitzcarraldo, 336 pp., £12.99, May 2022,978 1 913097 91 2 Show More
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated by Frank Wynne and Rahul Bery.
Fitzcarraldo, 336 pp., £12.99, May 2022,
“... In 1968, Fidel Castro invited an American anthropologist called Oscar Lewis to interview Cubans about their lives. Lewis was famous for an oral history project, conducted in a Mexico City slum, which he had turned into a book called The Children of Sánchez (1961). By recounting a poor family’s struggles and hustles, legal and otherwise, Lewis angered the country’s ruling party, which still described itself as ‘revolutionary ... ”