Adela azcuy, la capitana: Trabajo leído por el Académico Correspondiente en Artemisa, Provincia de Pinar del Río, Sr. Armando Guerra Castañeda en sesión pública, el día 7 de febrero de 1950
written by Armando Guerra Casteñeda, fl. 1950, in Lynn Stoner Personal Collection, of Private Collection (Havana City: Academia de la Historia de Cuba, 1950, originally published 1950), 40 page(s)
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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
- Armando Guerra Casteñeda, fl. 1950
- Collection
- Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
- Copyright Message
- Copyright @ 1950 Academia de la Historia de Cuba
- Content Type
- Biography
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 1950
- Page Count
- 40
- Publication Year
- 1950
- Publisher
- Academia de la Historia de Cuba
- Place Published / Released
- Havana City
- Subject
- Women and Social Movements, History, Women and War, Women and Rights, Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898, Mujer y Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Adela Azcuy, 1861-1914, 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 Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher