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Introduction: The Social Life of Literature in Contemporary Cuba: Negotiating Identity, Attaining Well-Being, and Surviving Social Change Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. “La cultura es lo primero que hay que salvar”: Writers, Literature, and Well-Being in the Período Especial, 1990–2000

Author : Par Kumaraswami

Published in: The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

This chapter summarizes the impact of the Período Especial en Tiempos de Paz that was declared by the leadership in the early 1990s. The chapter explores interviews with writers conducted in 2005–2006 to examine how they responded to the material and moral crises that characterized Havana in the early 1990s. In particular, these interviews indicate a new threefold role for literature in terms of SWB: as a mechanism to compensate material shortages; as a survival strategy to articulate a common project of survival in the midst of growing social inequality and fragmentation; and, crucially, as a means of critique and consciousness-raising which frequently contested the ability of the government to address new social realities.

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Metadata
Title
“La cultura es lo primero que hay que salvar”: Writers, Literature, and Well-Being in the Período Especial, 1990–2000
Author
Par Kumaraswami
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56963-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55940-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55940-1_4