ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how bloggers who work in the shadow of a consecrated "Revolution" relate to the "revolutionary" discourse surrounding the practice of contestatory blogging. It focuses on the work of arguably the most prominent, internationally renowned of Cuban bloggers, Yoani Sanchez's Generacion Y. Sanchez started her blog in January 2007 as a way to voice her personal frustration at the slowness of political reform and the limits on freedom of expression in Cuba. From early 2008 onwards, Sanchez also included increasingly prolific and complex links to other sites in her texts. In the blog itself, Sanchez comments on the Government's binaristic advertising campaigns with slogans such as "Revolucion o muerte" or "socialismo o muerte". Ironically perhaps, the prophetic, on occasion eulogistic, tone of blog posts auguring imminent social change increasingly offers parallels between Sanchez's writing and that of the "poet of the Revolution," Nicolas Guillen.
