Case studies include the Venceremos Brigade, now nearing its 50th anniversary (Chapter 1); the lesser-known CubanAmerican
Antonio Maceo Brigade (Chapter 4); the dozens of hijackings to Cuba carried out by US citizens between 1968 and 1973 (Chapter 3); and African-American exiles, fugitives, and ex-pats in Cuba (Chapter 5).
It is this latter connotation, which is bound up with technological qualities of resilience (such as what can be observed in a given materials ability to revert to its original form after deformation or assault), that serves as the contextual matrix for my analysis of the psychical qualities of Operation
Antonio Maceo. Paying attention to these more nebulous aspects through a type of "thematic amplification"--the experiential research device of detecting and describing recurrent themes in narratives that Sunnie D.
En La ultima adivinanza del mundo (2009) un campesino sale de su poblado para luchar junto a
Antonio Maceo en la guerra de independencia nacional contra el ejercito espanol (1868-78).
"Me dijo que habia sostenido controversias con los poetas de Serafin Sanchez, de Maximo Gomez, de
Antonio Maceo y los de Leoncio Vidal y que todos los oficiales con mando en el Ejercito Libertador tenian sus poetas.
Before the talks, Shoigu laid a wreath at the Cacahual Mausoleum outside Havana holding the remains of the independence war hero
Antonio Maceo (1845-1896).
When he died in 1895, Marti was considerably less well known and celebrated on the island than fellow revolutionaries Maximo Gomez and
Antonio Maceo. It took a new generation of left-leaning nationalists in the 1920s to begin the process of mythification and mystification that culminated in Marti's enshrinement as Cuba's secular "Apostle" of independence, not to mention his later repackaging as the Cuban Revolution's "intellectual author." Ottmar Ette's Jose Marti: Apostel-Dichter-Revolutionar (1991) remains the most comprehensive work explicitly devoted to Marti's reception history; more recently Lillian Guerra's The Myth of Marti (2005) focuses more narrowly on Marti's reputation during Cuba's first decades as a neocolonial state.
Yo que me pasaba la vida sin atender a clases, conversando de cualquier cosa con el companerito mas cercano, por lo que recibia cocotazos del profesor; de pronto comence a prestar atencion cuando relataba la tragedia de los estudiantes de medicina de 1871, y me despertaba el coraje cuando narraba el heroismo de
Antonio Maceo y lo nebuloso, para el, de su muerte.
A deep internationalist, Jayne could tell us "I see Chano Pozo" "Is there anyone finer today ole okay/Oye I say/I see Chano Pozo/Chano Pozo from Havana Cuba" so we can dig that Afro-Cuban connect joined at the Hip and take us "to the spirit house of
Antonio Maceo."