Caviar with Rum Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience

by Loss, Jacqueline; Prieto, José Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781137027979
• ISBN10: 1137027975
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

No country in Latin America has escaped the symbolic influence of the United States to the extent that Revolutionary Cuba has. This resistance meant that for approximately three decades the Soviet Union had an invitation to intervene in practically all Cuban spheres. Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited these days and what this means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

Author Biography

Jacqueline Loss is an associate professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her publications include Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of place and the co-edited collection New Short Fiction from Cuba. Dreaming in Russian: The Soviet Cuban Imaginary is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. Jos Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including the internationally acclaimed Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia and the books Livadia, Rex, and El tartamudo y la rusa. Voz humana is forthcoming. He is an associate professor at Seton Hall University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Timeline of Soviet-Russian-Cuban Relations from 1959 to the Present	p. 15
Ostalgie: Cuban Style
The Munequitos Rusos Generation	p. 27
Nostalgia	p. 37
Roxy the Red	p. 55
Communicating Vessels
The Rebel Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of "Cuban Sots Art"	p. 69
Toward a Cuban October	p. 85
Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite	p. 95
The Mammoth That Wouldn't Die	p. 109
Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)	p. 119
The Recalcitrant Ajiaco
so, Borscht Doesn't Mix into the Ajiaco?: An Essay of Self-Ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba	p. 133
Dispatches from the War Zone	p. 161
Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black Mona	p. 171
Persistent Matrioshkas	p. 183
The Imaginary Tractor
The Inventor, the Machine, and the New Man	p. 199
What the Russians Left Behind	p. 211
Diplomatic and Economic Coquetterie
Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in Cuba	p. 229
Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 259
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