Socialist ensembles : theater and state in Cuba and Nicaragua
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Socialist ensembles : theater and state in Cuba and Nicaragua
（Cultural politics, v. 8）
University of Minnesota Press, c1994
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Most discussions of socialist development within nation-states focus exclusively on the state, leaving civil society out of the picture. By looking into the realm of theatre in two socialist states, Randy Martin finds a way of broadening this view. An ethnography of theatre and political culture in Cuba and Nicaragua, his work reveals the tensions and negotiations among different dimensions of society that characterize the socialist project. Theatre, Martin shows us, is a particularly elastic expression of aesthetic and organizational form that can prefigure broader social developments. The critical sensibility displayed there, taking its cues from cultural processes beyond the stage, is indicative of the ongoing reformation of the socialist project. Martin considers Nicaragua through the Sandanista and Chamorro administrations, and Cuba from the time of reform know as rectification through the withdrawal of Soviet aid. Randy Martin is the author of "Performance as Political Act: the Embodied Self" (1990) and "Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics" (1994).
Table of Contents
- Theatre and the ethnography of socialism
- where's the theater?
- Nicaraguan theatre goes to market
- masquerades of gender in a Nicaraguan theatre
- sources of socialist culture in Cuba
- Cuban theatre under rectification
- theater and recognition of socialism.
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