Description
Book SynopsisA study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
Why does Cuban socialism endure as an object of international political desire, while images of capitalist markets consume Cuba’s national imagination? This bold new study argues that Cuba’s changing media cultures are key to our understanding of the global postsocialist condition and its competing political imaginaries.
Portable Postsocialisms calls on a vast multimedia archive to offer a groundbreaking cultural interpretation of Cuban postsocialism. Paloma Duong examines songs, artworks, advertisements, memes, literature, jokes, and networks that refuse exceptionalist and exoticizing visions of Cuba. Expanding postsocialist critical theory to read this complex mediascape, Duong argues that a materialist critique
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Is the Postsocialist Condition?
- Chapter 1. Cuban Travels: Hatuey in Ethiopia
- Chapter 2. Portable Pachanga
- Chapter 3. Postsocialismos de Bolsillo: Women and Fashion in Secondhand Time
- Chapter 4. Cuban Screen Cultures
- Conclusion: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
