Utopia and dysropia of the Cuban revolution

Abstract

The subject is to give a new vision of an old problem that is the subject of more than half a century - the Cuban Revolution and utopia that it produced. Official ideological discourse of this Revolution is conditioned by culture and turns into disappointment and dystopia. At the beginning it pretends to be a new model of human society and by the time is transformed into a form of totalitarian regime. The work is primarily based on theories of Levitas, Che Guevara, Sartre, and Benjamin, among others. Mapping the most important utopia, we have tried to present the ideology of the Cuban society and its impact on aesthetics and art. The hypothesis of this paper is that this Revolution has produced many specific utopias which are an integral part of its ideology. Making a huge impact on the various cultural fields it coused the emergence of new artistic modalities: black Cuban novel, new discourse full of nostalgia and melancholy, as well as ruins in various artistic representations in which we find dystopian elements.

Keywords

• utopia
• the cuban revolution
• castro
• cuba
• dystopia