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Minima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-soviet Cuba Marta Hernaandez Salvaan
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Minima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-soviet Cuba
Marta Hernaandez Salvaan
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sovereignty of Violence 2. Violence and Melancholia in the Eighties and Nineties 3. Biopolitics and the Revival of Jose Lezama Lima in the Eighties and Nineties 4. Humanism, Irony, and the End of Literature Afterword Notes Works Cited Index"Review Quotes: Marta Hernandez Salvan tackles head on the complex nature of philosophical tendencies within the poetics of Cuban cultural production in the last few decades to offer magnificent and precise readings of lesser-known writings and films, as well as profound renderings of canonical texts. This is a remarkably rich book that will take multiple readings to give it justice. Jacqueline Loss, author of "Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary""Biographical Note: Marta Hernandez Salvan is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Riverside."
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 30, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781438456690 |
| Publishers | State University of New York Press |
| Genre | Ethnic Orientation > Hispanic |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 234 × 23 mm · 498 g |
