De Cuba à Calcutta. "Tea Time à New Delhi" (2017) de Jean-Pol Hecq, ou le voyage du Che en Inde (1959)

  1. André Bénit 1
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

Libro:
Viagem e cosmopolitismo: da ilha ao mundo
  1. Ana Isabel Moniz (coord.)
  2. Joaquim Pinheiro (coord.)
  3. Leonor Martins Coelho (coord.)
  4. Alcina Sousa (coord.)
  5. Cristina Santos Pinheiro (coord.)

Editorial: Edições Húmus

ISBN: 978-989-755-610-4

Año de publicación: 2021

Páginas: 497-516

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

Resumen

In Tea Time in New Delhi (2017), written for the centenary of Indira Gandhi’s birthdayand the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s execution, journalist and novelist Jean-PolHecq narrates Ernesto Guevara’s trip to India from June 30 to July 12 1959. Hecq is a specialist of India where he travelled on several occasions. Guevara’s trip was part of a3-month official tour in order to promote the Castro revolution. It was also a turningpoint both for the famous Argentinian-Cuban revolutionary and for Indira Gandhi,who, then, was only Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s daughter but who will soon becalled to play a major political role in her country. Subtly mixing historical facts witha fictional plot, Hecq takes the reader into an India which is still then self-searchingand invites him/her to question the mystique of power, its eroticism, as well as itsconstraints and limits.