Literatura policial cubanadel corsé político a la apertura crítica
- 1 UAX - Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio. Comunicación y Lengua Española. Villanueva de la Cañada - Madrid - España.
ISSN: 0101-3505, 1981-7886
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Dossiê “Cruzando el Puente Plateado: las relaciones culturales entre América Latina y el Bloque del Este”
Volume: 57
Issue: 2
Pages: 107-122
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de letras
Abstract
Since the mid-1970s, the crime novel has followed a similar evolution in Ibero-American countries. However, in Cuba, in these years and until the mid-1980s, the genre takes a very particular direction, and is separated from what was written in the rest of the territories. This distancing takes place as a result of the revolutionary government intervention in the editorial activity, because it is considered that gender could serve as a useful and effective instrument in the education of the masses. Like I try to show in this paper, the genre’s conception from an exclusively utilitarian point of view makes that the first theoreticians of the Cuban crime novel forget the literary aspect. Equally, the closeness with the Eastern Bloc countries contribute to the theorization is based on texts by Soviet writers. However, the meeting of crime novel’s writers, organized in Havana in 1986, in which authors of the Eastern Bloc and other Ibero-American countries participate, add new perspectives to the critical discussion and favor a change in the approach of this type of texts.