9781469654607-1469654601-Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (Envisioning Cuba)

Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (Envisioning Cuba)

ISBN-13: 9781469654607
ISBN-10: 1469654601
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Tiffany A. Sippial
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781469654607
ISBN-10: 1469654601
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Tiffany A. Sippial
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (Envisioning Cuba) (ISBN-13: 9781469654607 and ISBN-10: 1469654601), written by authors Tiffany A. Sippial, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Women (Specific Groups) books. You can easily purchase or rent Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (Envisioning Cuba) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Celia Sanchez Manduley (1920–1980) is famous for her role in the Cuban revolution. Clad in her military fatigues, this "first female guerrilla of the Sierra Maestra" is seen in many photographs alongside Fidel Castro. Sanchez joined the movement in her early thirties, initially as an arms runner and later as a combatant. She was one of Castro's closest confidants, perhaps lover, and went on to serve as a high-ranking government official and international ambassador. Since her death, Sanchez has been revered as a national icon, cultivated and guarded by the Cuban government. With almost unprecedented access to Sanchez's papers, including a personal diary, and firsthand interviews with family members, Tiffany A. Sippial presents the first critical study of a notoriously private and self-abnegating woman who yet exists as an enduring symbol of revolutionary ideals.
Sippial reveals the scope and depth of Sanchez's power and influence within the Cuban revolution, as well as her struggles with violence, her political development, and the sacrifices required by her status as a leader and "New Woman." Using the tools of feminist biography, cultural history, and the politics of memory, Sippial reveals how Sanchez strategically crafted her own legacy within a history still dominated by bearded men in fatigues.
Review
Sippial's biography, based on hundreds of interviews, suggests that in the end, [Celia Sanchez Manduley's] reticence might have been her greatest achievement, the performance that made everything else she accomplished possible.--
Guernica
Sippial's 'feminist biography' of Celia Sanchez Manduley, Fidel Castro's right-hand woman, seeks its famously private subject in official memorials, museums, press reports, family interviews, popular culture and a cache of personal papers – only to conclude that 'the 'real' Sanchez . . . is largely unknowable to us all'.--
Times Literary Supplement
This gendered biography of Cuban guerrilla and Communist Party leader Celia Sanchez Manduley highlights how Sanchez maneuvered between traditional and nontraditional roles. Using letters from Sanchez, accounts by rebel participants, and interviews with family and friends, Sippial. . . . Explores the mythical memory of Sanchez as Fidel's companion and Cuba's mother. . . . This is a well-written biography.--
CHOICE
An intriguing expedition into the life of a woman who was a significant contributor to the Cuban insurrection and a principal architect of the first two decades of the revolutionary government that followed. . . . A thoughtful biography of an under-examined life.--
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Terrific. . . . Meet a woman whose saintly image belies a record of accomplishment all the more remarkable for unfolding in a sexist society that regarded the New Woman as the physical, psychological, and sexual helpmeet of the New Man. Revealing the person behind the revered Sanchez image required deft and relentless excavation on Sippial's part.--
HAHR
Review
I congratulate Tiffany Sippial for her drive, persistence, and assiduous research. Tapping a wealth of primary and secondary sources and her own personal forays in Cuba, she has produced this ambitious and well-written book on an emblematic—and yet very private and enigmatic—Cuban woman of the revolutionary period."—Jean Stubbs, author of
Tobacco on the Periphery
About the Author
Tiffany A. Sippial, associate professor of history at Auburn University, is the author of
Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920.

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