From Socialist Realism to Anarchist Capitalism

Cuban Cyberpunk

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ID11060977
AuthorsJuan C Toledano Redondo (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume32
IssuePart 3
Pages442-466
Publication date2005-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Fiction Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/sfs.32.3.442
OpenAlexW2530726966
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

Cuban cyberpunk developed during the Special Period in Time of Peace of the 1990s. After the fall of the USSR, Cuba went through its worst economic and social crisis since 1959. The Revolution seemed to be falling apart. At the same time, capitalism became the economic credo for the new globalized economy. Cuba was completely isolated. Among its youngest generation of sf writers, some adapted the cyberpunk style of the US in the 1980s to express their new reality. Yoss, Vladimir Hernández, and Michel Encinosa created a new hero, defiant of the late capitalist world and impregnated with a traditional anarchist view against the state. The new socialist man was replaced by the new anarchist hero/ine

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Capitalism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Latin American Literature Studies · Law

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