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Culture and the Cuban State
- Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism
Engelsk Hardback
Culture and the Cuban State
- Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism
Engelsk Hardback

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Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics such as Tania Bruguera, Jesús Díaz, Rafael Hernández, Kcho, Reynier Leyva Novo, Leonardo Padura, and José Toirac. The cultural field is important for the reproduction of the regime in place, given its pretense and ambition to be eternally “revolutionary” and to lead a genuine “cultural revolution”. Cultural actors must be mobilized and handled with care, given their presumed disposition to speak their mind and to cherish their autonomy. This book argues that cultural actors also seek recognition by the main (for a long time the only) sponsor and patron of the art in Cuba: the “curator state”. The “curator state” is also a “gatekeeper state,” arbitrarily and selectively opening and closing the space for public expression and for access to foreign currencies and the global market. The time when everything was either mandatory or forbidden is over in Cuba. The regime seems to have learned from egregious mistakes that led to a massive exodus of artists, writers and academics. In a country where things change so everything could stay the same, the controlled opening in the cultural field, playing on the actors'' ambition and fear, illuminates a broader phenomenon: the evolving rules of the political game in the longest standing dictatorship of the hemisphere.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781498522236
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1498522238
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Udg. Dato:
8 nov 2017
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
238mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
8 nov 2017
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