Cuban currency [[electronic resource] ] : the dollar and special period fiction / / Esther Whitfield

• Autore: Whitfield Esther Katheryn
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 863.70997291; 863/.64093553
• Soggetto topico: Cuban literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Authorship - Economic aspects - Cuba - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Selling like hot bread : new money, new markets -- Dollar trouble : the roots of special period fiction -- Covering for banknotes : books, money, and the Cuban short story -- Markets in the margins : the allure of Centro Habana -- The ruined city : artists and spectators of decay.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the countryÕs spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Exploring the work of ZoŽ ValdŽs, Pedro Juan GutiŽrrez, Antonio JosŽ Ponte, and others, Esther Whitfield draws out writersÕ engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cuban currency
• ISBN: 0-8166-5396-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781810803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 21.