Cuba in the special period: culture and ideology in the 1990s
Hernández-Reguant, Ariana
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure. INDICE: - The Special Period: An Introduction; A.Hernandez-Reguant - PART I: TRANSNATIONAL PUBLICS - Truths and Fictions: The Economics of Writing, 1994-1999; E.Whitfield - Filmmaking with Foreigners; C.Venegas - Spiritual Capital: Foreign Patronage and the Trafficking of Santeria; K.M.Delgado - AudiovisualRemittances and Transnational Subjectivities; L.Maya Knauer - PART II: IDEOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENTS - Multicubanidad; A.Hernandez-Reguant - Preemptive Nostalgiaand La Batalla for Cuban Identity: Option Zero Theater; L.Frederik Meer - TheLetter of the Year and the Prophetics of Revolution; K.Routon - ¿Seremos comoel Che?: An Ideological Positioning of Reggaetón Production; A.Boudreault-Fournier - PART III: REFLECTIVE MOVES - Ending the Century with Memoriesb&: PaperMoney, Videos, and an X-acto Knife for Cuban Art; A.Eligio Fernandez - Wandering in Russian; J.Loss - Rap Cubano: Can't Stop, Won't Stop the Movement!; R.Zurbano
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60654-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 20/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés