1st Edition
Readers and Writers in Cuba A Social History of Print Culture, l830s-l990s
By Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
Copyright 1997
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and universities, the printing press, the abolitionist movement and the exile community from 1810 through the post-war years. Subsequent sections trace literary life from the 1920s to 1958, focusing on the... Read more
Literary Culture from Colonialism to Independence * Writing at the Turn of the Century: Printing Presses and Literary Circles * The Republic: 1900 to 1958 * Cultural Policy of the Revolution and the Literary Sphere * Readership and Revolution: Restructuring Print Culture * Institutionalization of Literary Culture * Golden Age of Revolutionary Publishing * Fin de Siecle: Literary Culture at the Crossroads
Biography
Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Author)
"A welcome addition to the limited literature on Cuba...provides a balanced, reasoned, logical, and well-researched account...recommended." -- Choice
