Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The culture that the Revolution created
  • Speaking at cross purposes : the failed identification between teachers and students in the literacy campaign
  • Body versus mind : an Intellectual's memoirs expose his negative image
  • Harvesting the nation : how Cuba became unified in the historical zafra
  • Frustrated mothers, virgin workers, and masked whores : the "new woman" at work
  • - Toward a revolutionary utopia : fluid identities in a child's account
  • Epilogue : Identity and its discontents : Leonardo Padura Fuentes looks back at the new man.