Paloma Duong is an associate professor of Latin American and studies in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program at MIT.

[Duong] critically explores the Cuban people’s experience and relationship to socialism and anti-capitalism through the lens of mediascapes...paying close attention to change and continuity. (CHOICE) Duong offers reprieve for Cuba’s overdetermined position by pointing to how Cubans have engaged with digital media to narrate themselves as postsocialist subjects within the capitalist condition of the world. As such, Duong’s book offers rich conceptual analysis from which to build. (Popular Culture Studies Journal) An informed cultural critique spiced with considerable theoretical flavour that has much to commend it. (Latin American Review of Books) [This book makes] significant contributions to postsocialist theory. (Journal of Latin American Geography) [This book] is a timely contribution to Cuban, post(socialist), and media studies...[It] pins down elusive definitions of the postsocialist paradigm and the cultural responses and media practices shaping and challenging it. (Film Quarterly) Duong's attention to smart phones and screen cultures will be an indispensable vector for readers seeking to understand twenty-first century Cuba...Portable Postsocialisms does vital work in expanding a media ecosystem that Cuban Studies has too often [been] assumed to be comprised by the State alone. (Chasqui)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Postsocialist Condition? Chapter 1. Cuban Travels: Hatuey in Ethiopia Chapter 2. Portable PachangaChapter 3. Postsocialismos de Bolsillo: Women and Fashion in Secondhand Time Chapter 4. Cuban Screen Cultures Conclusion: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History Notes Bibliography Index

Paloma Duong is an associate professor of Latin American and studies in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program at MIT.

[Duong] critically explores the Cuban people’s experience and relationship to socialism and anti-capitalism through the lens of mediascapes...paying close attention to change and continuity. (CHOICE) Duong offers reprieve for Cuba’s overdetermined position by pointing to how Cubans have engaged with digital media to narrate themselves as postsocialist subjects within the capitalist condition of the world. As such, Duong’s book offers rich conceptual analysis from which to build. (Popular Culture Studies Journal) An informed cultural critique spiced with considerable theoretical flavour that has much to commend it. (Latin American Review of Books) [This book makes] significant contributions to postsocialist theory. (Journal of Latin American Geography) [This book] is a timely contribution to Cuban, post(socialist), and media studies...[It] pins down elusive definitions of the postsocialist paradigm and the cultural responses and media practices shaping and challenging it. (Film Quarterly) Duong's attention to smart phones and screen cultures will be an indispensable vector for readers seeking to understand twenty-first century Cuba...Portable Postsocialisms does vital work in expanding a media ecosystem that Cuban Studies has too often [been] assumed to be comprised by the State alone. (Chasqui)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Postsocialist Condition? Chapter 1. Cuban Travels: Hatuey in Ethiopia Chapter 2. Portable PachangaChapter 3. Postsocialismos de Bolsillo: Women and Fashion in Secondhand Time Chapter 4. Cuban Screen Cultures Conclusion: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History Notes Bibliography Index

Paloma Duong is an associate professor of Latin American and studies in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program at MIT.

[Duong] critically explores the Cuban people’s experience and relationship to socialism and anti-capitalism through the lens of mediascapes...paying close attention to change and continuity. (CHOICE) Duong offers reprieve for Cuba’s overdetermined position by pointing to how Cubans have engaged with digital media to narrate themselves as postsocialist subjects within the capitalist condition of the world. As such, Duong’s book offers rich conceptual analysis from which to build. (Popular Culture Studies Journal) An informed cultural critique spiced with considerable theoretical flavour that has much to commend it. (Latin American Review of Books) [This book makes] significant contributions to postsocialist theory. (Journal of Latin American Geography) [This book] is a timely contribution to Cuban, post(socialist), and media studies...[It] pins down elusive definitions of the postsocialist paradigm and the cultural responses and media practices shaping and challenging it. (Film Quarterly) Duong's attention to smart phones and screen cultures will be an indispensable vector for readers seeking to understand twenty-first century Cuba...Portable Postsocialisms does vital work in expanding a media ecosystem that Cuban Studies has too often [been] assumed to be comprised by the State alone. (Chasqui)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Postsocialist Condition? Chapter 1. Cuban Travels: Hatuey in Ethiopia Chapter 2. Portable PachangaChapter 3. Postsocialismos de Bolsillo: Women and Fashion in Secondhand Time Chapter 4. Cuban Screen Cultures Conclusion: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History Notes Bibliography Index