The literary texts examined in this study were written in the 1990s, in the wake of a paradigm crisis for socialism and revolution. While Cuban literature was being re-commodified for an international publishing industry, various Cuban writers (Eliseo Alberto, Jesus Diaz, Leonardo Padura, Senel Paz, Antonio Jose Ponte) reclaimed the cultural movement associated with the magazine Origenes (1944-1956). Disparaged and marginalized in the 1970s, the origenistas now constituted an emblem of literature's autonomy from the state and of its foundation in an authentic aesthetic sensibility. This...
The literary texts examined in this study were written in the 1990s, in the wake of a paradigm crisis for socialism and revolution. While Cuban litera...
