Haydée Santamaría
Vidas Rebeldes
July 2008
Trade Paperback · 130 Pages
$11.95 U.S. · $14.50 CAN
ISBN 9781921235917
Ocean Sur
Trade Paperback · 130 Pages
$11.95 U.S. · $14.50 CAN
ISBN 9781921235917
Ocean Sur
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Description
Achieving notoriety as one of the two women who participated in the armed attack that sparked the Cuban Revolution, Haydée Santamaría later directed the world-renowned literary institution Casa de las Américas, embracing culture as a tool for social change and providing refuge for exiled Latin American artists.
About the Authors
Haydee Santamaria led a full and painful life. One of a handful of Cuba's female revolutionary leaders, she suffered torture in Batista's prisons. After 1959, she established Casa de las Americas. Its director for 20 years, Haydee provided intellectual and physical refuge for artists and writers in exile from Latin American dictatorships.