Analyzing 'Memories of Underdevelopment': Class, Race, and the Cuban Revolution Through Film
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Keziah
Summary
The article analyzes the 1959 Cuban Revolution through the lens of the film "Mémoires du sous-développement" (Memories of Underdevelopment), focusing on the character Sergio, an intellectual writer who chooses to stay in Cuba after the socialist revolution while the bourgeois white class flees to the United States. The piece examines the racial and class dynamics of the revolution, contrasting the collective trance of Afro-Cubans celebrating the change with the bourgeois exodus, and uses Sergio as a lens to explore the complexities of post-revolutionary Cuban identity and underdevelopment.
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Mais il y a un vilain petit canard dans cette fuite bourgeoise : Sergio. Un intellectuel écrivain qui, lui, choisit de rester dans ce nouveau Cuba socialiste.
La première séquence et ses images incarnent ce changement de visage.
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