Cuban Currency : The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction /

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Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the countrys spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte, and others, Esther Whitfield draws out writers enga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitfield, Esther Katheryn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cuban literature.
Authorship > Economic aspects.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Art d'ecrire > Aspect economique > Cuba > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Authorship > Economic aspects > Cuba > History > 20th century.
Cuban literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cuba.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Selling like hot bread : new money, new markets
  • Dollar trouble : the roots of special period fiction
  • Covering for banknotes : books, money, and the Cuban short story
  • Markets in the margins : the allure of Centro Habana
  • The ruined city : artists and spectators of decay.

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