From Socialist Realism to Anarchist Capitalism: Cuban Cyberpunk
Toledano Redondo, Juan C. "From Socialist Realism to Anarchist Capitalism: Cuban Cyberpunk." Science Fiction Studies #97 = 32.3 (November 2005): 442-67. As of June 2022, Abstract on-line here.[1]
Abstract:
Cuban cyberpunk developed during the Special Period in Time of Peace of the 1990s. After the fall of the USSR, Cuba went through its worst economic and social crisis since 1959. The Revolution seemed to be falling apart. At the same time, capitalism became the economic credo for the new globalized economy. Cuba was completely isolated. Among its youngest generation of sf writers, some adapted the cyberpunk style of the US in the 1980s to express their new reality. Yoss, Vladimir Hernández, and Michel Encinosa created a new hero, defiant of the late capitalist world and impregnated with a traditional anarchist view against the state. The new socialist man was replaced by the new anarchist hero/ine. (p. 466)
Notes Bruce Sterling in the introduction to the Mirrorshades
Works dealt with by Toledano Redondo include:
RDE, finishing, 24/25Jun22