Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

by De Ferrari, Guillermina

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Title Statements

Full title :Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba / Guillermina De Ferrari.

Summary

"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-revolutionary future"--

Edition Statements

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:xv, 218 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415737852, 0415737850
oclc:ocn856054417
LC Classification:PQ7378
Dewey Decimal:860.9/97291

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 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.

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1900 - 1999 Communauté dans la littérature Communities in literature Community life 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 COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Lati… LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin… Literary Criticism -- General Literature and society Literature and society -- Cuba Littérature cubaine -- Histoire et crit… Littérature et société -- Cuba