TY - JOUR
T1 - All That is Solid Melts Into Rust
T2 - The Material Decay of The Sugar Industry in Post-Soviet Cuba
AU - Sklodowska, Elzbieta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The disintegration of the Cuban sugar industry after the Soviet Union’s demise, as depicted in the film Melaza (dir. Carlos Lechuga,2012), 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.
AB - The disintegration of the Cuban sugar industry after the Soviet Union’s demise, as depicted in the film Melaza (dir. Carlos Lechuga,2012), 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.
KW - Carlos Lechuga
KW - Cuban Revolution
KW - Melaza
KW - restructuring
KW - ruination
KW - sugar industry
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85110858510
U2 - 10.1080/13569325.2021.1919068
DO - 10.1080/13569325.2021.1919068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110858510
SN - 1356-9325
VL - 30
SP - 277
EP - 290
JO - Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
JF - Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -