ARIANA HERNANDEZ-REGUANT is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Writing the Special Period: An Introduction - Ariana Hernandez-Reguant PART I: FOREIGN COMMERCE Truths and Fictions: The Economics of Writing, 1994-1999 - Esther Whitfield Filmmaking with Foreigners - Cristina Venegas Spiritual Capital: Foreign Patronage and the Trafficking of Santería - Kevin M. Delgado PART II: PLURAL NATION Multicubanidad - Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Preemptive Nostalgia and La Batalla for Cuban Identity: Option Zero Theater - Laurie Frederik Meer Wandering in Russian - Jacqueline Loss The 'Letter of the Year' and the Prophetics of Revolution - Kenneth Routon PART III: TRANSNATIONAL PUBLICS El Rap Cubano: Can't Stop, Won't Stop the Movement! - Roberto Zurbano, Translated by Kate Levitt Audiovisual Remittances and Transnational Subjectivities - Lisa Maya Knauer Ending the Century with Memories . . . : Paper Money, Videos, and an X-Acto Knife for Cuban Art - Antonio Eligio Fernández, 'Tonel,' Translated by Kate Levitt

This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure.