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Author De Ferrari, Guillermina, 1966-

Title Community and culture in post-Soviet Cuba / Guillermina De Ferrari
Published New York ; London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)
Series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 23
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 23.
Contents 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
Summary 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 critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cuban literature -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Cuba
Gender identity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Communities in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Communities in literature
Cuban literature
Gender identity in literature
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Masculinity in literature
SUBJECT Cuba -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034592
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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