Community and culture in post-Soviet Cuba

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Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close cr…

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Full title :Community and culture in post-Soviet Cuba / Guillermina De Ferrari.

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317813439, 131781343X, 9781315817378, 1315817373, 9781317813446, 1317813448, 1306320127, 9781306320122, 9781317813422, 1317813421
DOI:10.4324/9781315817378
oclc:ocn868490998
LC Classification:PQ7378 .D43 2014
Dewey Decimal:860.9/97291

1. Socialism and Sociality; Socialist Legality, Revolutionary Faith; The "Post" in Post-Soviet; Cultural Vision, Political Blindness; The Revolutionary Polis; Socialism and Sociality; 2. The Friendship Plot; The Values of Friendship; Jesús Díaz's Excellence; Leonardo Padura's Loyalty; Leonardo Padura's Honor; Abel Prieto's Stoicism; The Good Life; 3. Ethics after Dark; The Civility of Perversion; Ena Lucía Portela's Masochism; Abilio Estévez's Cruising; Antonio José Ponte's Necrophilia.

Perversion as Trope4. The Poetics of Evil; Terror without Virtue; Theorizing Evil; Wendy Guerra's Voicelessness; Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Loneliness; Ena Lucía Portela's Unsociability; Ena Lucía Portela's Murderous Triangles; Community and Communism (via Guillermo Rosales); Nietzsche or Aristotle?; 5. Ethics Is the New Aesthetics; Photography and Truth; Frontality in Abigail González and René Peña; Silence in Antonio José Ponte and Fernando Pérez; Post-Photography in José Manuel Fors and Abilio Estévez; Sensation in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez; Ethics Is the New Aesthetics; 6. A Curated Culture; Going Global An Ethics of Consumption; Curating Cuba; Marketing Difference.

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Communauté dans la littérature Communities in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Cuba Cuba -- Intellectual life -- 20th centu… Cuba -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle Cuban literature Cuban literature -- History and critici… Gender identity in literature Identité sexuelle -- Dans la littérature Intellectual life LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literature and society Literature and society -- Cuba Littérature cubaine -- Histoire et crit… Littérature et société -- Cuba Masculinité dans la littérature Masculinity in literature