ISBN:
9781137569639
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (229 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Kumaraswami, Par The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba : Narrative, Identity, and Well-being
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kumaraswami, Par The social life of literature in revolutionary Cuba
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Kuba
;
Literatur
;
Literatursoziologie
;
Geschichte 1959-2013
Abstract:
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Used -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Social Life of Literature in Contemporary Cuba: Negotiating Identity, Attaining Well-Being, and Surviving Social Change -- The Special Place of Literature in the Cuban Revolution -- This Study -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Culture, Identity, and Well-Being: Reviewing the Possibilities -- Culture: Definitions and Issues -- Culture: Subjectivity and Objectivity Reviewed -- Cultural Practice: Beyond a Mere Survival Strategy -- Culture: Structure and Agency Revisited -- Culture and Ideology
Abstract:
Culture and Action -- Identity and Community -- I, We, and Them -- Being and Behaving: Linking Identity, Cultural Models, and Action -- Identity and Well-Being -- Defining Well-Being -- The "Cultural Turn" in Approaches to Well-Being -- The Promise of Literature -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Social Change, Cultural Policy, and the Functions of Literature: Understanding Culture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1989 -- Cultural Policy and the Revolution, 1959-1989 -- The Writer Within Revolutionary Society -- The Reader Within the Revolution -- Textual Production and Society
Abstract:
The Value Systems of the Revolution: Coercion, Contestation, Conformity, or Cohesion? -- Cubanía -- Conciencia Revolucionaria -- Voluntarism-Self-Sacrifice, Asceticism, and Heroism -- Participation and Action -- Individual and Collective Selfhood -- Self-evaluation -- Future Orientation -- Egalitarianism -- Humanism -- Notes -- Chapter 4: "La cultura es lo primero que hay que salvar": Writers, Literature, and Well-Being in the Período Especial, 1990-2000 -- Cultural Policy in the 1990s -- Writers Respond -- The Moral and Material Foundations of Well-Being -- Notes
Abstract:
Chapter 5: "La cosa esta que vino después": Reading Testimonial Literature, Well-Being, and Narrative During the Batalla de Ideas -- The Batalla de Ideas -- The Study10 -- The Texts -- Extract 1: Marta A. González, Bajo Palabra (1965) -- Extract 2: Dora Alonso, El año 61 (1981) -- Extract 3: Mercedes Santos Moray, La piedra de cobre (1978) -- The Readers -- The Findings -- Axis One: From Context to Text -- Axis Two: From Text to Reader -- Axis Three: Reading Contexts and Communities -- Axis Four: Leaving the Texts and Narrating the Self -- Bridges to Cuba -- Notes
Abstract:
Chapter 6: Subjective Well-Being and Culture as Everyday Practice in Contemporary Cuba, 2007-2012 -- A Nocturnal Map -- Broadening the Definition of "Bienestar" -- The Policy Environment in 2012 -- ¿Hay que Salvar la Cultura? -- The Study: What Is SWB and How Do We Look for It? -- SWB as Resilience and Adaptability -- Culture and SWB -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Promise of Well-Being Through Culture in Contemporary Cuba: Morality, Culture, and the Market -- Culture and the Actualización -- The Promise of Well-Being: Lessons for the Future? -- Notes -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Corpus of Primary Texts
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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