University of Texas Press · 2024
Why does Cuban socialism endure as an object of international political desire, while images of capitalist markets consume Cuba's national imagination? "Portable Postsocialisms" calls on a vast multimedia archive to offer a groundbreaking cultural interpretation of Cuban postsocialism. Duong examines songs, artworks, advertisements, memes, literature, jokes, and networks that refuse exceptionalist and exoticizing visions of Cuba.