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Abstract / Summary

From the beginning of the republic, Cuban historians gathered and glorified national history in speeches before an academic audience. They mostly spoke of patriots and battles, but a basic element of Cuban national identity was martyrdom. Cuban patriots fought and died for a total of fourteen years. Their form of resistance was guerrilla warfare, and soldiers relied on women to fight, spy, run guns, and nurse the wounded and ill. Women died of malnutrition in the prison camps and in prisons. They sent their children to war. The national narrative used the manner by which women sacrificed their lives and those of their family members to signify the ultimate rendering of the Cuban soul for freedom. The speeches given in academic setting 50 years after Cuba was independent from Spain retained the passion of the independence and molded images of female martyrs into the official historical record. These are only a few of those speeches delivered in the 1950s.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Rafael Marquina y Angulo, 1887-1960

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Copyright Message

Copyright @ 1950 Academia de la Historia de Cuba

Content Type

Biography

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Text

Original Publication Date

1950

Page Count

64

Publication Year

1950

Publisher

Academia de la Historia de Cuba

Place Published / Released

Havana City

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Social Reform, Women and Rights, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Marta Abreu, 1845-1909, Cuba, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Opposition to Imperialism, Cubans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)

Topic

Opposition to Imperialism

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher