All That is Solid Melts Into Rust
The Material Decay of The Sugar Industry in Post-Soviet Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elzbieta Sklodowska (0000-0002-7678-0504) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-290 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2021.1919068 |
| OpenAlex | W3202884407 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The disintegration of the Cuban sugar industry after the Soviet Union’s demise, as depicted in the film Melaza (dir. Carlos Lechuga, 2012 Lechuga, Carlos. 2012. Melaza. [Google Scholar]), serves as a point of departure for a more general analysis of the materiality of Cuba’s post-sugar afterlife. Against the backdrop of sugar mills shuttered as a result of the 2002 “restructuring”, I analyse the film’s aesthetic rendering of the multilayered archaeology of loss: from the dissolution of the utopian dreams to the daily precarity of common livelihoods
Aesthetics · Afterlife · Archaeology · Art · Demise · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Flemish · Literature · Livelihood · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Precarity · Restructuring · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Cuban History and Society · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |