Cuba in the Special Period
Subtitle: culture and ideology in the 1990s
By: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant.
Series: New concepts in Latino American cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Politics and culture -- Cuba; Cuba -- Civilization -- 1959-; Cuba -- History -- 1990-
Description: 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 and places, ideologies and practices of cultural production, dissemination and consumption, and the circulation of various cultural forms in transnational networks of publicity and exchange. These insightful contributions shed light on the changes that Cuba's opening to global markets of mass culture brought to the cultural field during the so-called Special Period in Times of Peace.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing the Special Period / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant; title: Truths and fictions : the economics of writing, 1994-1999 / Esther Whitfield; title: Filmmaking with foreigners / Cristina Venegas; title: Spiritual capital : foreign patronage and the trafficking of santeria / Kevin M. Delgado; title: Multicubanidad / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant; title: Preemptive nostalgia and la batalla for Cuban identity : Option Zero Theater / Laurie Frederik Meer; title: Wandering in Russian / Jacqueline Loss; title: The "letter of the year" and the prophetics of revolution / Kenneth Routon; title: Rap cubano : can't stop, won't stop the movement! / Roberto Zurbano; title: Audiovisual remittances and transnational subjectivities / Lisa Maya Knauer; title: Ending the century with memories? : paper money, videos and an "x-acto knife" for Cuban art / Antonio Eligio Fernandez, "Tonel".