LEADER 04218oam 22006014a 450 001 9910810344303321 005 20230817175039.0 010 $a1-5261-3032-7 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526130327 035 $a(CKB)3810000000290549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5217087 035 $a(OCoLC)1085599478 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72894 035 $a(DE-B1597)659658 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526130327 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000290549 100 $a20181221e20182012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLiterary culture in Cuba$eRevolution, nation-building and the book /$fPar Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia, with Meesha Nehru 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2020 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-7190-9995-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [245]-258) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Locating literary culture in the trajectory of the revolution -- Understanding literary culture in the Revolution -- 1959-61 : the first flush of revolution -- 1961-89 : the years of radicalisation and consolidation -- 1990s-2000s : the years of crisis and reassessment -- The path to becoming a writer in contemporary Cuba : the role of the Centro de Formacion Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso and the movement of talleres literarios / by Meesha Nehru -- The history of a novel : Alberto Ajon Leon's ÅQue Bola? (What's Up?) -- The Feria Internacional del Libro de la Habana -- Conclu 330 $aThis book examines the complex ways in which a literary culture has been created and sustained within the Cuban Revolution. Based on the insights gained from original interviews with over 100 participants and sustained documentary research, it offers new perspectives and challenges long-held orthodoxies regarding the place of literature in the Cuban Revolution. By departing from the conventional focus on individual texts and authors to instead examine the actors, processes and spaces (writing, regulation, publishing, promotion and reading) through which literature has operated inside Cuba since 1959, and thus situates literary culture within the broader revolutionary context of nation-building. It traces the development of literary culture from the first days of the Revolution through to the economic crisis of the 1990s, revealing the debates and tensions but also the continuity of vision which has underlined the production and circulation of literature on the island. Combining historical and theoretical approaches with more detailed case studies, it explores Cuban literary culture through a conceptual framework which identifies the unique and complex patterns of policy and practice within the Revolution and applies them to three particular contemporary phenomena writing workshops, the Havana Book Festival, and the publishing infrastructure which demonstrate the continuing centrality of literary culture within the Cuban Revolution. The book is of interest to students and researchers working within Latin American Studies, those studying Cuba or other revolutionary contexts in Latin America, as well as those working in Cultural Studies, and lay readers with an interest in the Cuban Revolu 606 $aPolitics and culture$zCuba$xHistory$y20th cen 606 $aCuban literature$xHistory and criticism$y20th cen 607 $aCuba$xCultural po 607 $aCuba$xIntellectual life$y20th cen 610 $aCuban Revolution. 610 $aCuban culture. 610 $aHavana Book Festival. 610 $aliterary culture. 610 $apublishing. 610 $awriting workshops. 615 $aPolitics and culture$xHistory 615 $aCuban literature$xHistory and criticism 676 $a972.9106 700 $aKumaraswami$b Par$01030278 702 $aNehru$b Meesha 702 $aKapcia$b Antoni 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810344303321 996 $aLiterary culture in Cuba$94098430 997 $aUNINA