Essay
La Prostitution à Cuba
Not translated into English
Sami Tchak · 1999
Synopsis
After the collapse of the Soviet empire, Cuba becomes a poor country where poverty pushes some to risk their lives on a raft, and others to choose illegality, theft or prostitution in order to survive. The sociologist, who spent seven months on the island in 1996, observes those who sell their bodies, their ruses and their daily resourcefulness, and reads in it the corrupting power of money as well as the ideological, political and economic contradictions of a communist regime in crisis.
Context
The essay was published in Paris in September 1999 by L'Harmattan, in the series Recherches et documents Amériques latines, with a preface by the Cuban writer Eduardo Manet, the same year as a study by the author on female sexuality in Africa. It extends a field investigation carried out in 1996, after a first study on the formation of a peasant elite in Burkina Faso. The Latin American material then passed into his novels: since 2003, these are set in an imaginary Latin America that closely resembles Africa.
Who it is for
A sociological essay in French, accessible without specialist training, which sheds light on the novels the author will publish afterwards.
Prizes and reception
Still available from its publisher, in print and in digital format; it sheds light on the Cuban part of its author's fiction.
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