03813nam 22006735 450 991025524230332120200630073807.01-137-55940-3978113755940110.1057/978-1-137-55940-1(CKB)3710000000881796(EBL)4716525(DE-He213)978-1-137-55940-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4716525(EXLCZ)99371000000088179620160820d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba[electronic resource] Narrative, Identity, and Well-being /by Par Kumaraswami1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-137-56963-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 naïve 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. The study reviews policy from 1959 to the present, and presents contemporary case studies exploring the social functions of literature for writers, readers and ordinary Havana residents. .Ethnology—Latin AmericaAmerica—HistoryCivilization—HistoryCulture—Study and teachingAmerica—LiteraturesCultural studiesLatin American Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411080History of the Americashttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000Regional and Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000North American Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040Ethnology—Latin America.America—History.Civilization—History.Culture—Study and teaching.America—Literatures.Cultural studies.Latin American Culture.History of the Americas.Cultural History.Regional and Cultural Studies.North American Literature.Cultural Studies.860.997291Kumaraswami Parauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1030278BOOK9910255242303321The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba2499985UNINA