Readers and writers in Cuba : a social history of print culture, 1830s-1990s
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Readers and writers in Cuba : a social history of print culture, 1830s-1990s
(Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1935 . Latin American studies ; v. 10)
Garland Pub., 1997
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Literatura y edición de libros
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
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  Wakayama
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  Okayama
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  Fukuoka
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  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
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Rev. and updated English language version of: Literatura y edición de libros. 1987
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and universities, the printing press, the abolitionist movement and the exile community from 1810 through the post-war years. Subsequent sections trace literary life from the 1920s to 1958, focusing on the links between writers, readers, and the institutions that supported literary endeavors in the Cuban Republic. The remaining chapters address Cuban literary culture from 1959 through the 1990s. This first thorough study of Cuban print culture after the 1959 revolution fills a large gap in Latin American studies with original research in archives and journals. Analysis of the relationship between literature and contemporary Cuban society is grounded in the earliest Cuban vernacular literature born in the Spanish colony and redefined in the process of nation-building in the first half of the 20th century. The book also surveys Cuban literary production in the current period of transition, confronting issues of globalization, fragmentation, and Cuba's adjustment to a post-Cold War world.
Table of Contents
Literary Culture from Colonialism to Independence * Writing at the Turn of the Century: Printing Presses and Literary Circles * The Republic: 1900 to 1958 * Cultural Policy of the Revolution and the Literary Sphere * Readership and Revolution: Restructuring Print Culture * Institutionalization of Literary Culture * Golden Age of Revolutionary Publishing * Fin de Siecle: Literary Culture at the Crossroads
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