Selling like hot bread : new money, new markets -- Dollar trouble : the roots of special period fiction -- Covering for banknotes : books, money, and the Cuban short story -- Markets in the margins : the allure of Centro Habana -- The ruined city : artists and spectators of decay
Summary
Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the countrys spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte, and others, Esther Whitfield draws out writers engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index
