{"product_id":"sun-sex-and-socialism-9781442641389","title":"Sun Sex and Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough North Americans may not recognize it, Cuba has long shaped the German imaginary. \u003cem\u003eSun, Sex, and Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e picks up this story from the early 1960s, detailing how the newly upstart island in the U.S. backyard inspired citizens on both sides of the Berlin Wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1970s, international rapprochements and repressions on state levels were stirring citizen disenchantment, discontent, and grassroots solidarities in all three nations. The Cold War''s official end generated waves of politicised nostalgia and prescriptions for the newly configured Cuba and Germany, as exemplified in films like \u003cem\u003eBuena Vista Social Club\u003c\/em\u003e. Meanwhile, from the New Left movement to today, revolutionary compatriots Ché Guevara and Tamara Bunke continued to be icons of youth resistance, even while being commodified globally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun, Sex, and Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates how Germans identified with transnational communities beyond the East-West binary. Through analysis of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Well researched, theoretically sophisticated, and a welcome break from studies that focus on the Northern Hemisphere and its superpowers... Hosek's study can be strongly recommended to those with an interest in identity formation in the German states of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.' -- John D. Pizer German Studies Review; vol 36:03:2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Contesting  the New Berlin Republic through Germany's Cubas2 Extending Solidarian Heimat: Cuba and the 1960s Democratic Republic3 Translating Revolution: Cuba and the 1960s Federal Republic4 Siting  Trials: Cuba as Cipher for German Governance around the 1970s 5 Touring Revolution and Resistance:  Tamara Bunke and Che GuevaraEpilogueWorks CitedIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530081673559,"sku":"9781442641389","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442641389.jpg?v=1731877998","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sun-sex-and-socialism-9781442641389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}