Cuba in the special period: culture and ideology in the 1990s

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