Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781612056791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 328 str.

Mauricio A. Font; Araceli Tinajero

Opis

Puzzled by the conditions that made possible a socialist revolution in Cuba-the first and only in the Western Hemisphere-scholarship after 1959 focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the making of a revolutionary order. Since 2008, the end of Fidel Castro's direct rule, world economic conditions and a wave of reforms and social transformation have forced a reconsideration of Cuban cultural and historical dynamics. The scholarly gaze is now on possibilities for alternative transformations rather than on the deepening of conventional twentieth-century state socialism. This handbook explores key themes in the current debate about Cuba's contemporary cultural and historical dynamics. Leading academics from Cuba, the United States, and Europe bring to light significant revisions of the artistic and literary canon and the historical archive, and they reconsider often neglected subjects and dynamics in historiography as well as contemporary affairs. The book includes new studies on contentious mobilization, leftist activism, and youth organizations in the pre-revolutionary republic. Current analyses include the relation between the Cuban state and intellectuals; institutional legitimation processes; the formation and reconstruction of national identity discourses; and new framings of gender, race, and sexual orientation. The book illuminates the growing salience of social issues and changes in music, literature, cinema, and theater, thus fostering a fuller understanding of historical and current social dynamics of a Cuba in transformation today.

Spis treści

General Introduction Part I: History 1 El derecho de nacer: Legitimidad, historia, y literatura en Cuba 2 In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: Mobilization and Popular Support for Revolutionary Change, 1959–1961 3 Youth Organizations in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1962: From Unidad to Vanguardia 4 Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952–2002 5 Cuban Corporatism: Batista’s Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayed 6 An Anarchist Crucible: Transnational Radicals in Cuba, 1900–1915 7 The Hernández Family: Migration, Cubanidad, and Transnational Identities Part II: Literature and Intellectuals 8 Defining the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the Doctrine of Martí 9 Fantoches 1926: A Collective Crime Mystery 10 Reinaldo Arenas: The Spokesman of the Invisible Community 11 Havana, a City of Disenchantment in the Narrative of Padura Fuentes 12 El sujeto cubano en ruinas y las heterotopías sexualizadas de La Habana en Contrabando de sombras, de Antonio José Ponte Part III: Arts 13 “La Habana está en todas partes”: Young Musicians and the Symbolic Redefinition of the Cuban Nation 14 Rumba Performance and the Politics of Place in the Era of Cultural Tourism 15 Cuban Ethnicities in Cinematic Context, 1930s–1950s 16 Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Havana 17 Infidelity in Cuban Drama of the 1980s and 1990s: Toward a Positive Interpretation of Rupture 18 Teatro cubano del transmilenio, 1990–2010 19 P.M. in the Artistic Context 20 Una mirada historiográfica a la plástica cubana contemporánea: La Generación de cierta esperanza versus la Generación de la esperanza cierta

O autorze

Mauricio A. Font; Dr Araceli Tinajero