Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

"This book re-examines the role of the intellectual within the revolutionary project in post-Soviet Cuban culture. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, the author argues that friendship and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals' fidelity to the truth of the Revolution. This volume demonstrates that masculine sociability is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba's socialist regime. It also examines in detail the sociology of cultural administration -- production, dissemination, reception, and interpretation -- of intellectual labor in Cuba. Furthermore, it maps the emergent ethical paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision a post-revolutionaryfuture"--

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• Authors: Guillermina De Ferrari, Guillermina (University of Wisconsin-M De Ferrari
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415737852
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73785-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, History, Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Humanities, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Art forms, Hispanic & Latino Studies, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics