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
31 - Alternative Cultural Projects and Their Histories
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
This chapter examines alternative cultural projects that emerged in Cuba from the 1980s into the new millennium: intellectual groupings, periodicals, and writing initiatives neither fully in the state’s purview nor fully outside of it. The chapter elucidates the national and international factors as well as intellectual and artistic goals marking such projects as Paideia (1989–1990), Diáspora(s) (1993–c.2002), Torre de Letras (2001–2016), OMNI Zona Franca (1995–?), and la noria (2009–) and notes their impact on the writers of Generation Zero, born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who published some of their work in these venues. Although the chapter includes numerous writers, key figures addressed include Rolando Prats (Paideia); Reina María Rodríguez (Paideia and Torre de Letras); Rolando Sánchez Mejías, Carlos A. Aguilera, Ricardo Alberto Pérez, Pedro Marqués de Armas, and Rogelio Saunders (Diásporas); Juan Carlos Flores, Amaury Pacheco, David Escalona, Luis Eligio Pérez, Alina Guzmán, Nilo Julián González, Damián Valdés, and Jorge (Yoyi) Pérez (OMNI Zona Franca); and Oscar Cruz and José Ramón Sánchez (la noria).
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- The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 487 - 502Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024