JOURNAL ARTICLE
La profecía realizada: Viajeros argentinos de izquierda a la Revolución cubana.
Published In: Cuban Studies, 2023, v. 52. P. 308 1 of 3
Database: Historical Abstracts with Full Text 2 of 3
Authored By: Ribadero, Martín 3 of 3
Abstract
La experiencia de viajar en su modalidad reflexiva y de búsqueda de conocimiento es un atributo de la modernidad. Dentro de esa tradición moderna, el viaje revolucionario, en especial durante el siglo XX, estuvo asociado con la idea de vislumbrar el futuro, el advenimiento de una nueva sociedad. El objetivo del trabajo es estudiar los registros escritos de varios intelectuales argentinos que, encandilados con la originalidad del proceso cubano e identificados con la ascendencia que gozaba allí otro argentino como Ernesto Che Guevara, viajaron a la isla y a la vuelta dejaron sus impresiones sobre lo que entendían, en términos generales, era la realización de una utopía social democrática e igualitarista. Este ejercicio de traducción político-cultural fue realizado por varias figuras entre las que se destacan hombres provenientes de la tradición de las izquierdas como Jorge Masetti, Alfredo Palacios, Silvio Frondizi, Adolfo Gilly y Elías Semán, entre otros. A partir del análisis de testimonios compuestos por un corpus variado el ensayo intenta adentrarse en un aspecto significativo pero poco atendido a la hora de comprender la repercusión global de la Revolución cubana en América Latina: haber sido una experiencia que movilizó recursos simbólicos y materiales y sensibilidades políticas que alteró los ricos y disímiles debates de ideas que en distintas capitales de la región se enfrentaban en la esfera pública. The experience of traveling in its reflective modality and search for knowledge is an attribute of modernity. Within this modern tradition, the revolutionary journey, especially during the twentieth century, was associated with the idea of glimpsing the future, the advent of a new society. The objective of the work is to study the written records of several Argentine intellectuals who, dazzled by the originality of the Cuban process and identified with the ancestry enjoyed by another Argentinian like Ernesto "Che" Guevara, traveled to the island and left their impressions on what they had returned understood, in general terms, shaped the realization of a democratic and egalitarian social utopia. This exercise in political-cultural translation was carried out by several figures, including men from the left, such as Jorge Masetti, Alfredo Palacios, Silvio Frondizi, Adolfo Gilly, Elías Semán, and Juan Carlos Portantiero, among others. From analysis of varied testimonies this essay explores a significant but little attended aspect of understanding the global repercussion of the Cuban Revolution in Latin America: as an experience that mobilized symbolic and material resources and political sensitivities, which altered the rich, dissimilar ideas that different capitals of the region faced in the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Additional Information
- Source:Cuban Studies. 2023/01, Vol. 52, p308
- Document Type:Article
- Subject Area:History
- Publication Date:2023
- ISSN:0361-4441
- DOI:10.1353/cub.2023.a899806
- Accession Number:164366110
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