Resumen de Literature as reproductive labor in post-soviet Cuba

Jonathan Dettman

• Cuba's post-Soviet period1 has drawn the attention of literary scholars, owing in part to a notable change in both the kind of literature being produced and the sort of authors producing it. As new writers emerged alongside established voices, works became more critical, more experimental, and less formulaic in the way they addressed social issues. The new Cuban authors tended to be younger, queerer and, more often than not, women. Many of these authors have found an international stage, as economic conditions, including shortages of paper, made it necessary to seek publishing opportunities abroad. These circumstances have been variously celebrated and denounced by observers, some of whom see foreign markets as a means to escape censorship or narrowly prescriptive or politicized literary codes, while others, still hewing to these codes, lament the pernicious effect of the profit motive, thought to preclude the sort of serious or politically committed literature that they continue to assert as a revolutionary ideal and moral obligation.

  However one assesses the effect of increased dependence on foreign markets, one must count the increase in publications