Lexington Books
Pages: 188
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-0277-0 • Hardback • October 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-7936-0278-7 • eBook • October 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Asa McKercher is assistant professor in the Department of History at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Catherine Krull is dean, faculty of social sciences, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.
Foreword by Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Prologue: Entangled Terrains: Empire, Identity, and Memories of Guantánamo
Chapter 1: An English-Speaking Diaspora: West Indian Migrants in Cuba
Chapter 2: From Boyhood to Manhood at the Edge of Empire: Growing up
in Guantánamo’s Shadow
Chapter 3: Negotiating Revolution in Guantánamo, 1953-1960
Chapter 4: Caught in the Crossfire of Crisis
Chapter 5: Homecoming? Cross Borders Post-Guantánamo
This is a fascinating, revealing, and always-challenging book, which--by breaking with many standard patterns of oral history--gives us a deep and very human picture of one individual life within the confusing context of the Cuban revolution, a life which, while being atypical in so many ways, nonetheless gives us invaluable insight into the complexities of being Cuban (inside and outside Cuba) since 1959.
— Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham