Document Type
Article
Abstract
Cuban editor, translator and literary critic José Rodríguez Feo (1920-93) has received insufficient attention from scholars of Cuban cultural history. Though he was wealthy, fluent in English, and educated at Harvard, he decided to stay in Cuba and commit to Castro's revolutionary cultural agenda. Though this fact is surprising, the seeds of Rodríguez Feo's Marxist commitments can be seen in the early stages of his career, when he was co-editor of the literary magazine Orígenes (1944-56). Rodríguez Feo's knowledge of U.S. history instilled in him a distaste for the injustices of imperialism. His education and fluency in English did not shape him into a reflexively pro-American member of the Cuban elite. Instead, they instigated a commitment to anti-imperialism that developed into a strict allegiance with Castro's political and cultural agendas.
Repository Citation
Lesman, Robert. "Shifts and Continuities: The Ideological Evolution of José Rodríguez Feo." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss4/16