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Film, Video Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions

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Title

  • Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions

Summary

  • Kluge Fellow Lanie Millar discussed how recent Cuban and Angolan literature reexamines histories of revolution. Cuba and Angola are two nations linked by a history of Iberian colonization and leftist revolutions that triumphed in Cuba in 1959 and Angola in 1975. The recent histories of Cuba and Angola come into closer contact via the fifteen-year military collaboration between the two nations during Angola's civil war (1975-2002). As the Cold War came to an end, however, Cuban and Angolan literature turned away from ideas of revolutionary utopia to disappointment with wartime violence, politically-motivated censorship and unresolved social realities.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2017-03-23.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Literature
  • -  Cuba, Angola, revolution, literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Lanie Millar.
  • -  Recorded on 2017-03-23.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690455

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-23, 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690455/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2017) Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-23. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690455/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-23, 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690455/>.