Writing Resistance and Heroism: Guerilla Strategies From Castro's Gulag

摘要

With contemporary political debates centering on the possibility of closing the Guantdnamo Bay military installation, attention is once again being focused on prisons in Cuba. This provides an opportunity to interrogate the modern history of prisons in Cuba, particularly following the Cuban Revolution. As such, this essay considers the use of Cuban prisons for the detention of political prisoners by examining Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison, the prison memoir of guerilla activist Ana Rodriguez to understand the resistance to Castro's revolution and the ways in which female prisoners reimagined themselves and wrote the brutal history of the Revolution.