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Mínima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba

By Marta Hernández Salván

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1438456697, 9781438456690
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1802936 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Pages
272\274
Time added
2017-02-01 18:14:48
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

Minima Cuba analyzes the reconfiguration of aesthetics and power during the Cuban postrevolutionary transition (1989 to 2005, the conclusion of the Special Period ). It explores the marginal cultural production on the island by the first generation of intellectuals born during the Revolution. The author studies the work of postrevolutionary poets and essayists Antonio Jose Ponte, Rolando Sanchez Mejias, and Ivan de la Nuez, among others. In their writing we find the exhaustion of the allegorical and melancholic rhetoric of the Cuban Revolution, and the poetics of irony developed in the current biopolitical era. The book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary literary and cultural studies, poetics, and film studies in Latin America and the Caribbean."

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