The social life of literature in revolutionary Cuba : narrative, identity, and well-being /: narrative, identity, and well-being. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Par Kumaraswami.
• Other Names: Kumaraswami, Par
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Used ; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Social Life of Literature in Contemporary Cuba: Negotiating Identity, Attaining Well-Being, and Surviving Social Change; The Special Place of Literature in the Cuban Revolution; This Study; Notes; Chapter 2: Culture, Identity, and Well-Being: Reviewing the Possibilities; Culture: Definitions and Issues; Culture: Subjectivity and Objectivity Reviewed; Cultural Practice: Beyond a Mere Survival Strategy; Culture: Structure and Agency Revisited; Culture and Ideology; Culture and Action. Identity and Community, We, and Them; Being and Behaving: Linking Identity, Cultural Models, and Action; Identity and Well-Being; Defining Well-Being; The "Cultural Turn" in Approaches to Well-Being; The Promise of Literature; Notes; Chapter 3: Social Change, Cultural Policy, and the Functions of Literature: Understanding Culture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1989; Cultural Policy and the Revolution, 1959-1989; The Writer Within Revolutionary Society; The Reader Within the Revolution; Textual Production and Society. The Value Systems of the Revolution: Coercion, Contestation, Conformity, or Cohesion? Cubanía; Conciencia Revolucionaria; Voluntarism-Self-Sacrifice, Asceticism, and Heroism; Participation and Action; Individual and Collective Selfhood; Self-evaluation; Future Orientation; Egalitarianism; Humanism; Notes; Chapter 4: "La cultura es lo primero que hay que salvar": Writers, Literature, and Well-Being in the Período Especial, 1990-2000; Cultural Policy in the 1990s; Writers Respond; The Moral and Material Foundations of Well-Being; Notes. Chapter 5: "La cosa esta que vino después": Reading Testimonial Literature, Well-Being, and Narrative During the Batalla de Ideas; The Batalla de Ideas; The Study; 10; The Texts; Extract 1: Marta A. González, Bajo Palabra (1965); Extract 2: Dora Alonso, El año 61 (1981); Extract 3: Mercedes Santos Moray, La piedra de cobre (1978); The Readers; The Findings; Axis One: From Context to Text; Axis Two: From Text to Reader; Axis Three: Reading Contexts and Communities; Axis Four: Leaving the Texts and Narrating the Self; Bridges to Cuba; Notes. Chapter 6: Subjective Well-Being and Culture as Everyday Practice in Contemporary Cuba, 2007-2012; A Nocturnal Map; Broadening the Definition of "Bienestar"; The Policy Environment in 2012; ¿Hay que Salvar la Cultura?; The Study: What Is SWB and How Do We Look for It?; SWB as Resilience and Adaptability; Culture and SWB; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Promise of Well-Being Through Culture in Contemporary Cuba: Morality, Culture, and the Market; Culture and the Actualización; The Promise of Well-Being: Lessons for the Future? ; Notes; Bibliography; Corpus of Primary Texts; Interviews.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (229 pages)
• Subjects: 301; Culture -- Study and teaching; Ethnology -- Latin America; Civilization -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Civilization; Culture -- Study and teaching; Ethnology; Latin America; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137559401; 1137559403
• Related ISBNs: 9781137569639; 1137569638
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 8, 2016).
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