Cuba in the Special Period : culture and ideology in the 1990s /

This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba's cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people a...

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Other Authors: Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:New concepts in Latino American cultures.
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Online Access:CONNECT (3 user limit)
Table of Contents:
  • Writing the Special Period : an introduction / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
  • Truths and fictions : the economics of writing, 1994-1999 / Esther Whitfield
  • Filmmaking with foreigners / Cristina Venegas
  • Spiritual capital : foreign patronage and the trafficking of santería / Kevin M. Delgado
  • Multicubanidad / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
  • Preemptive nostalgia and la batalla for Cuban identity : Option Zero Theater / Laurie Frederik
  • Wandering in Russian / Jacqueline Loss
  • The "letter of the year" and the prophetics of revolution / Kenneth Routon
  • El rap cubano : can't stop, won't stop the movement! / Roberto Zurbano ; translated by Kate Levitt
  • Audiovisual remittances and transnational subjectivities / Lisa Maya Knauer
  • Ending the century with Memories-- : paper money, videos and an x-acto knife for Cuban art / Antonio Eligio Fernández ; "Tonel" translated by Kate Levitt.