Mémoires de la Période Spéciale

Abstract

With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Cuba experienced an unprecedented crisis. This period, officially designated by the euphemism «Special Period», was experienced as a cataclysm by the population. The writers of the island took literary ownership of this apocalypse while the official organs refused to evoke it. The works of the 1990s become the few testimonies of this daily nothingness. By challenging the revolutionary identity, they contribute to forge the collective memory of the radical changes that reshaped the Cuban society.

Keywords

• Cuba
• Special Period
• testimony
• apocalypse