Full Description
Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
Contents
PART I: OSTALGIE: CUBAN STYLE The Muñequitos Rusos Generation—Aurora Jácome, Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen Nostalgia—Reina María Rodríguez, Translated by Kristin Dykstra Roxy the Red—Pedro González Reinoso, Translated by Dick Cluster PART II: COMMUNICATING VESSELS The Rebellious Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of Cuban Sots Art —Juan Carlos Betancourt, Translated by Antonio Garza Toward a Cuban October—Ernesto Menéndez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite—Jorge Ferrer, Translated by Anna Kushner The Mammoth That Wouldn't Die—Carlos Espinosa Domínguez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)—José Manuel Prieto, Translated by Jorge Castillo PART III: RECALCITRANT AJIACO ...So, Borscht and the Ajiaco Don't Mix?: An Essay of Self-ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba—Dmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Martínez Shvietsova, Translated by Kristina Cordero Dispatches from the War Zone—Tonel Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black 'Mona'—Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva, Translated by Jacqueline Loss Persistent Matriushkas—Jacqueline Loss PART IV: THE IMAGINARY TRACTOR The Inventor, the Machine, and the New Man—Ariana Hernández-Reguant What the Russians Left Behind—Yoss, Translated by Daniel W. Koon PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC COQUETTERIE Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in Cuba—Yuri Pavlov Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World—Mervyn J. Bain
