218 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
234 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Socialism and Sociability 2. The Friendship Plot 3. Ethics After Dark 4. A Poetics of Evil 5. Ethics is the New Aesthetics 6. A Curated Culture
Biography
Guillermina De Ferrari is Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her previous book, Vulnerable States (2007) studies the metaphorical power of the vulnerable body in comparative Caribbean literature.
"De Ferrari explores the barriers between non-Cubans and Cubans, i.e., what the latter think and feel as they move away from a Stalinist model. Her response to the "pure incompatibility" between politics and ethics that describes Cuba today is stimulating. Summing Up: Recommended." -- O. B. Gonzalez, Loyola University of Chicago, in CHOICE
