De «bandidos» e «infidentes»
The article deals with the subject of banditry in Cuba during the first half of the 19th century, focusing first on the semantic and coercive treatment of the subject by the island’s executive and Permanent Military Commission (1825-1856) and thence, following the work of this special tribunal, on t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Casa de Velázquez
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/8613 |
| Summary: | The article deals with the subject of banditry in Cuba during the first half of the 19th century, focusing first on the semantic and coercive treatment of the subject by the island’s executive and Permanent Military Commission (1825-1856) and thence, following the work of this special tribunal, on the treatment of bandits and revolutionaries as equivalents after 1868. In the Cuban traditionalist context of the period, the figure of the bandit was portrayed as defying the colonial order, from two perspectives: firstly, from a social point of view bandits were seen as a threat, as an «enemy of the community» because they attacked the very foundations of community cohesion; and secondly, from an institutional point of view, the bandit represented disobedience, opposition to the productivist order that was established on the island. This disobedience was treated as a form of lese majeste, coming within the broad concept of «heinous crime». |
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| ISSN: | 0076-230X 2173-1306 |