Waubonsee Community College

The Cubalogues, Beat writers in revolutionary Havana, Todd F. Tietchen

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index

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non fiction

The Cubalogues

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Todd F. Tietchen

Beat writers in revolutionary Havana

"Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting years the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influencesSome of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Amiri Baraka, were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work and on the many writers and artists they encountered and fostered."--Pub. desc

Introduction: the "stranger relations" of Beat -- Hemispheric Beats (in the Bay Area and beyond) -- On the crisis of the underground and a politics of intractable plurality -- Unsettling the democratic score: music and urban insurgency -- Beat publics and the "middle-aged" Left -- (Back) towards a stranger democracy