{"product_id":"portable-postsocialisms-9781477328262","title":"Portable Postsocialisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortable Postsocialisms\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: What Is the Postsocialist Condition? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Cuban Travels: Hatuey in Ethiopia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Portable \u003ci\u003ePachanga\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. \u003ci\u003ePostsocialismos de Bolsillo\u003c\/i\u003e: Women and Fashion in Secondhand Time \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Cuban Screen Cultures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408964919639,"sku":"9781477328262","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477328262.jpg?v=1730504889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/portable-postsocialisms-9781477328262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}