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Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction

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Description for Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction Paperback. Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas S. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly accessible to foreign consumers, and their interest in its culture boomed.

 

Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the country’s spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Based on interviews and archival research in Havana, Esther Whitfield argues ... Read more

 

Confronting the tourist and publishing industries’ roles in the transformation of the Cuban revolution into commercial capital, Whitfield identifies a body of fiction peculiarly attuned to the material and political challenges of the “special period.”

 

Esther Whitfield is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Studies of the Americas S.
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816650378
SKU
V9780816650378
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