Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
38 - Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Unfinished Histories
- Part I Literature in the Early Colony
- Part II Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
- Part IV The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
- Part V Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium
- 31 Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
- 32 Ediciones Vigía and the Cultural Legacies of Matanzas
- 33 The Fiction of Cuba’s Special Period
- 34 Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989
- 35 The Temporality of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuban Theater
- 36 The Long Reach of Haiti in Cuban Literature
- 37 Cuban Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
- 38 Anti-Exceptionalism in Detective Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Graphic Novels
- 39 Cuban Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Millennium
- 40 Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas
- 41 The Performance Art of Global Cuba
- 42 Twenty-First-Century Cuban Film and Diaspora
- 43 Cuba’s Poetic Imaginary (1989–2020)
- 44 Prose Narratives from Cuban America
- 45 Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Departing from a detailed examination of a new enthusiasm for the genre of science fiction among Cuban writers in the aftermath of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, this chapter analyzes major trends and themes in detective fiction, speculative fiction (including its subgenre cyberpunk), and graphic novels in the pre- and post post-1989 periods, along with their relationship to other bodies of knowledge and literary production, on the island and elsewhere. Through the examination of work by writers as diverse as José Miguel Sánchez (Yoss), Daína Chaviano, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Jorge Enrique Lage, and Arturo Infante, among several others, the chapter demonstrates how these writers not only register the changing temperatures of ideology, morality, and everyday realities in ways that challenge Cuban exceptionalism, but also project dreams for a better planet, less tempered by utopian discourses of the past.
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- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 594 - 608Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024