Cuba in the Special Period : culture and ideology in the 1990s / edited by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-219) and index.

1. Writing the Special Period: An Introduction / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant -- 1. Foreign Commerce -- 2. Truths and Fictions: The Economics of Writing, 1994-1999 / Esther Whitfield -- 3. Filmmaking with Foreigners / Cristina Venegas -- 4. Spiritual Capital: Foreign Patronage and the Trafficking of Santeria / Kevin M. Delgado -- 2. Plural Nation -- 5. Multicubanidad / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant -- 6. Preemptive Nostalgia and La Batalla for Cuban Identity: Option Zero Theater / Laurie Frederik -- 7. Wandering in Russian / Jacqueline Loss -- 8. The "Letter of the Year" and the Prophecies of Revolution / Kenneth Routon -- 3. Transnational Publics -- 9. El Rap Cubano: Can't Stop, Won't Stop the Movement! / Roberto Zurbano -- 10. Audiovisual Remittances and Transnational Subjectivities / Lisa Maya Knauer -- 11. Ending the Century with Memories...: Paper Money, Videos, and an X-Acto Knife for Cuban Art / Antonio Eligio Fernandez.

"This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba's cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media, and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people and places, ideologies and practices of cultural production, dissemination and consumption, and the circulation of various cultural forms in transnational networks of publicity and exchange. These insightful contributions shed light on the changes that Cuba's opening to global markets of mass culture brought to the cultural field during the so-called Special Period in Times of Peace."--BOOK JACKET.