Voces femeninas en la guerra de independencia de Cuba: Lila de Luáces y Eva Adán de Rodríguez
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i20p486-511Keywords:
Women, War, Independence, Cuba, United StatesAbstract
During the war of independence in Cuba, which started in 1868 and lasted ten years, a number of texts appeared in Cuba and the United States detailing the conflict. All of these texts were written by men with the exception of one, published in the US, that was written by a woman. In this article I discuss this testimony and I compare it with another one published in Cuba after the war, also written by another female survivor. I discuss the way violence and the self is represented in these narrations, and most importantly how they build an archive of deeds to criticize Spain’s official (hi)story of the Cuban conflict.
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