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Title

A girl like Che Guevara : a novel / Teresa de la Caridad Doval.

Author

Doval, Teresa de la Caridad, 1966-

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Doval, Teresa de la Caridad,

Description

vii, 305 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Lourdes, product of a biracial marriage, outwardly scoffs at her mother's African superstitions, but she wears a hidden azabache amulet to protect her against the evil eye, as well as the Outstanding Communist medal that she proudly displays. Her favorite book is Che's Journal: she wants to devote her life to the Revolution, too. But then, this sheltered and privileged only child of a professor of Scientific Communism at the University of Havana has grown up paying heed to what her father says, not what he does." "Despite her ambition to be like Che, in many ways she is a typical teenager. She bemoans the fact that she is too scrawny, too frizzy-haired and dark-skinned, to attract a cool boyfriend; she longs for the latest forbidden fashions from "La Yuma" - the United States; and she is in denial about the state of her parents' marriage." "Together with her high school classmates, Lourdes sets out for the euphemistically named "School-in-the-Fields," actually a work camp where students are required to labor in the tobacco fields and leaf-drying sheds to demonstrate their devotion to Fidel, the Leader. There she watches her classmates, the teachers who accompany them to chaperone and instruct them, and the peasants whose purity and simplicity she has been taught to venerate."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Women tobacco workers > Fiction
• Cuba > Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Agricultural laborers > Fiction
• Teenage girls > Fiction
• Guevara, Che, 1928-1967 > Influence > Fiction

ISBN

1569473587 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003065404

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries