Cuban Crime Fiction
A Literature for the (Communist) Masses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5710689 |
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| Authors | Carlos Uxo (0000-0002-5035-0039, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-218 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1326-0219 • E-ISSN: 2151-9668 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13260219.2019.1684544 |
| OpenAlex | W2995676172 |
| Language | EN |
The Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution Crime Fiction Award was established in 1971, and given for the first time in 1972, as part of a policy to support the production of crime fiction in Cuba. From that year on and for at least another decade, it is impossible to find another cultural area that enjoyed the level of support and incentives that crime fiction did. In this article I establish the relationship between cultural policies adopted at the 1971 First Congress of Education and Culture and the implementation of a specific policy to support crime fiction. I pay special attention to the role played by the Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution award, and to the programmatic texts written by cultural officials to establish the theoretical and practical basis of the novela policial revolucionaria, focusing on the period 1971–1986
Aesthetics · Art · China · Communism · Criminology · Cultural revolution · Economics · Incentive · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cinema History and Criticism · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity
| Highly cited | No |
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