Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of The 1990s

This examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, all part of the new 'boom' of the Cuban novel in the 1990s. It analyses how in undermining monolithic representations of reality these texts employ discursive techniques that question absolute truths, defy established boundaries of literary genres and individual identity. The authors studeied in this book - Reinaldo Arenas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Agilio Estévez, Daína Chaviano, Yanitzia Canetti, and Zoé Valdés - are placed beyond the dichotomy of outside and inside Cuba in order to focus on in its literature. This study establishes similarities and differences in the way these author create polyphonic texts that question whether notions that of country and nation conincice in novels that respond to economic harship, political and social change, issues of cubanía, and exlixe. -- from back cover.