Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary

Randall Margaret Randall

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Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiance, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydee Santamaria was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaria was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaria founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaria's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydee Santamaria, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History of the Americas
• Cuba

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 02 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375272
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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HAYDÉE SANTAMARÍA, CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY

Margaret Randall

HAYDÉE SANTAMARÍA  CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY

SHE LED BY TRANSGRESSION

Duke University Press Durham and London 2015

© 2015 Duke Unîversîty Press A rîghts reserved Prînted în the Unîted States o Amerîca on acîd-ree paper∞ Desîgned by Heather Hensey Typeset în Whîtman by Graphîc Composîtîon, Inc.

Lîbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Randa, Margaret, 1936– Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revoutîonary : she ed by transgressîon / Margaret Randa. pages cm Incudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. isbn978-0-8223-5942-5 (hardcover : ak. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5962-3 (pbk. : ak. paper) isbn978-0-8223-7527-2 (e-book) 1. Santamaría, Haydée. 2. Revoutîonarîes—Cuba—Bîography. 3. Casa de as Amérîcas. I. Tîte. f1788.22.s265r36 2015 972.9106'3092—dc23 [B] 2015003794

Cover îmage: Haydée Santamaría. Archîvo Fotográfico Casa de as Amérîcas

for haydée

CONTENTS

chapter 1

chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4

chapter 5

chapter 6

chapter 7

chapter 8

chapter 9

chapter 10

Acknowledgments

Beore We Begîn

Why Haydée?

Eary Lîe

Moncada

War

81

Wîtnesses

31

53

107

11

îx

1

Casa de as Amérîcas

127

Two, Three, Many Vîetnams: Haydée and Che

The Woman beneath the Myth

Impossîbe Possîbîîty: Eegy or Haydée Santamaría

Notes 207 Bibliography Index 221

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

without the encouragementand aways ovîng support o my partner, Barbara Byers, thîs book woud not exîst. For many years she experîenced my need to wrîte ît, convînced me the tîme was rîght, and backed me up în more ways than I can say. In Cuba, I want to gîve specîa thanks to Roberto Fernández Retamar and Sîvîa Gî, who understood the împortance o the project beore I even knew I had the courage to begîn; to Chîkî Sasamendî, who worked tîreessy to get me the photographs that make the book so much rîcher; and to Ana Cecîîa Ruîz Lîm, who hed my hand throughout my fiedwork în Havana. Marcîa Leseîca, who was wîth Haydée at Casa’s începtîon în 1959, made her- se avaîabe to me or a ruîtu întervîew în 2014. At Casa de as Amérîcas I am aso personay grateu to Yoanda Aomá, Ideîsa Escaona, Juan Cazada, Jorge Fornet, Myrîam Radow, Aîcîa Varea, and Jorge Vîvas or aîdîng me în dîferent ways. I consuted many documents by and about Haydée at the Casa de as Amérîcas archîve and was gîven generous access to them a. Casa’s îbrary was aso extremey hepu. The Oice o Hîstorîc Afaîrs at the Cuban Coun- cî o State was orthcomîng wîth îts vauabe hodîngs. And the newspaper Granma’s document center kîndy aowed me to use the photograph o Hay- dée’s unera processîon. Wîth regard to the photographs, many come rom Casa’s archîve. In most