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Capitalism, God, and a good cigar : Cuba enters the twenty-first century / edited by Lydia Chávez ; with photographs by Mimi Chakarova.
- Title
- Capitalism, God, and a good cigar : Cuba enters the twenty-first century / edited by Lydia Chávez ; with photographs by Mimi Chakarova.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- x, 253 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro's revolution--the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere--would soon be gone as well. More than a decade later, the revolution lives on, albeit in a modified form. Following the collapse of Soviet communism, Castro legalized the dollar, opened the island to tourism, and allowed foreign investment, small-scale private enterprise, and remittances from exiles in Miami. Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar describes what the changes implemented since the early 1990s have meant for ordinary Cubans: hotel workers, teachers, priests, factory workers, rap artists, writers, homemakers, and others. Based on reporting by journalists, writers, and documentary filmmakers since 2001, each of the essays collected here covers a particular dimension of contemporary Cuban society, revealing what it is like to have lived, for more than a decade, suspended between communism and capitalism. There are pieces on hip hop musicians, fiction writing and censorship, the state of ballet and the performing arts, and the role of computers and the Internet. Other essays address the shrinking yet still sizeable numbers of true believers in the promise of socialist revolution, the legendary cigar industry, the changing state of religion, the significance of the recent influx of money and people from Spain, and the tensions between recent Cuban emigrants and previous generations of exiles. Including more than seventy striking documentary photographs of Cuba's people, countryside, and city streets, this richly illustrated collection offers keen, even-handed insights into the abundant ironies of life in Cuba today. ... Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews – Cuba.
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Adrift : an introduction to contemporary Cuba / Lydia Chávez -- Inventing. The new Cuban capitalist / Juliana Barbassa -- The old Cuban cadre : four women survive Manzanillo / Alicia Roca -- Trinidad : life on the margins / Julian Foley. Breathing. Hip hop pushes the limits / Annelise Wunderlich -- Authors who knew or know the limits / Ezequiel Minaya -- Dancers who stretch the limits / Ana Campoy -- Interlude. A photo essay / Mimi Chakarova. Surviving. True believers / Olga R. Rodríguez -- Socialism and the cigar / Daniela Mohor -- Cubans log on behind Castro's back / John Cote. Searching. The new immigrants don't hate Fidel / Archana Pyati -- The Spanish are back / Megan Lardner -- God, babalawos, and Castro / Bret Sigler -- Son de Camagüey / Angel González.
- ISBN
- 0822334828 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822334941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004027165
- OCLC
- 57002149
- SCSB-10043850
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library