"This book re-examines the role of the intellectual within the revolutionary project in post-Soviet Cuban culture. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, the author argues that...
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"This book re-examines the role of the intellectual within the revolutionary project in post-Soviet Cuban culture. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, the author argues that friendship and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals' fidelity to the truth of the Revolution. This volume demonstrates that masculine sociability is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba's socialist regime. It also examines in detail the sociology of cultural administration -- production, dissemination, reception, and interpretation -- of intellectual labor in Cuba. Furthermore, it maps the emergent ethical paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision a post-revolutionary future"--
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...
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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 works of visual art, this bo
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 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 GlobalAn Ethics of Consumption; Curating Cuba; Marketing Difference; Notes; References; Index
