Mauricio A. Font, Araceli Tinajero

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Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change

Beschreibung

First Published in 2016. If scholarship on Cuban studies after the 1959 revolution focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the construction of a socialist order, the post-1989 crisis of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe raised questions about the island's state as a socialist model. The scholarly gaze gradually began to focus on possibilities for alternative transformations at various levels of social life rather than on the deepening of traditional twentieth-century state socialism. This volume explores the newly emergent themes and debates about Cuban society and history.

Autor

Maurico A. Font is Director of the Bildner Centre for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at the graduate centre and Queens college, City University of New York. Araceli Tinajero is Professor of Spanish at the Graduate Centre and the City College of New York. She is the author of El Lector: a History of the Cigar Factory, amongst other books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781612056906
• ISBN-10: 1612056903
• Artikelnr.: 75651775

Rezensionen

"This handbook fills a need to bring interested readers up to date with developments in Cuban culture and society after the Special Period, when the Soviet Union disappeared together with its generous subsidies. . .Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries."
-CHOICE

"Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts offers in one volume a comprehensive view of the status of Cuban studies today. The book illuminates the growing salience of social issues and changes in music, literature, cinema, and theater, thus fostering a fuller understanding of historical and current social dynamics of a Cuba in transformation today. This compilation contributes to the development of a framework for understanding the ongoing transformations in the presence of changing structural dynamics."
- Sir Read-a-Lot