Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-Building and the Book

by Antoni Kapcia and Par Kumaraswami

Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture.

Based on over 100 interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going beyond the conventional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719099951
• ISBN13: 9780719099953
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"