Caviar with Rum

Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-03134-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loss, J.

Prieto, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: OSTALGIE: CUBAN STYLE The Muñequitos Rusos Generation—Aurora Jácome, Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen Nostalgia—Reina María Rodríguez, Translated by Kristin Dykstra Roxy the Red—Pedro González Reinoso, Translated by Dick Cluster PART II: COMMUNICATING VESSELS The Rebellious Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of Cuban Sots Art —Juan Carlos Betancourt, Translated by Antonio Garza Toward a Cuban October—Ernesto Menéndez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite—Jorge Ferrer, Translated by Anna Kushner The Mammoth That Wouldn't Die—Carlos Espinosa Domínguez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)—José Manuel Prieto, Translated by Jorge Castillo PART III: RECALCITRANT AJIACO …So, Borscht and the Ajiaco Don't Mix?: An Essay of Self-ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba—Dmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Martínez Shvietsova, Translated by Kristina Cordero Dispatches from the War Zone—Tonel Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black 'Mona'—Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva, Translated by Jacqueline Loss Persistent Matriushkas—Jacqueline Loss PART IV: THE IMAGINARY TRACTOR The Inventor, the Machine, and the New Man—Ariana Hernández-Reguant What the Russians Left Behind—Yoss, Translated by Daniel W. Koon PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC COQUETTERIE Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in Cuba—Yuri Pavlov Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World—Mervyn J. Bain

Über Autor(innen)

JACQUELINE LOSS is an Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her publications include (2005, Palgrave) and the co-edited collection, (2007, Northwestern University Press). Her book that treats Cubans' memory of the Soviets in the arts is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.
JOSÉ MANUEL PRIETO was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including the internationally acclaimed (Encyclopedia of a life in Russia), (published in English as Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire), , and (short stories). His (Human Voice) is forthcoming. He has been a fellow at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. José Manuel Prieto taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City, Cornell University as a Visiting Professor, and at Princeton University as a Distinguished Lecturer. He currently teaches at Seton Hall University.