Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba
Narrative, Identity, and Well-Being
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Word Count
55,500 words, Guess
Page Count
222 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781137559401
- ISBN-101137559403
- Better World Books9781137559401
- Open LibraryOL37447077M
Classifications
- LCCGN562-564
Description
This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a hybrid activity between elite and mass culture, with inherent social, rather than aesthetic or political, value. Whilst many traditional studies of Cuban literature assume either its subjugation to politics and ideology or, conversely, its role in resisting political discourse via a rather naiv̈e notion of artistic freedom, this project explores the varied, dynamic and multiple ways in which literature works in Cuban society: as a catalyst for identity construction aimed at consensus and belonging, but also as an instrument of self-differentiation and self-definition, even in the more recent context of a more market-oriented system.
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