Culture, humanities & social science
Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
By Paloma Duong, associate professor of media studies/writing
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.
From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.
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