Che on My Mind - Margaret Randall

Margaret Randall, born in New York in 1936, is a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist. After living in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua since the 1960s, she attempted to return to the United States in 1984. Randall had inadvertently lost her U.S. citizenship when she acquired the citizenship of her Mexican husband in 1967. The U.S. government refused to reinstate her citizenship after finding opinions expressed in some of her books to be "...

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I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me."...

In Che on My Mind, the poet Margaret Randall, who was one of the founders of the influential sixties bilingual journal El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn), assesses Che Guevara's enduring influence while confronting her own doubts and uncertainties over his justification of violence and armed struggle. She asks whether we can admire Guevara's commitment and generosity of spirit and still disagree with war as a strategy. Acknowledging that her own attitudes to Che have changed with age, her book is a frank assessment of Che's failures of judgment as well as of his charisma, and of his contradictory status as both saint and cowboy. - Jean Franco, author of Cruel Modernity Thoughtfully exploring the complex and contested record of the life and work of Che Guevara, Margaret Randall - with, as she says, 'the intuition of a poet' - presents a compelling personal meditation on a figure who has inspired legions of people, young and old, throughout the world, who struggle for a more just and decent human existence. - Noam Chomsky These personal essays on and acute observations of Che Guevara's legacy achieve insight into his enduring appeal to young revolutionaries.--ForeWord