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Cuban Currency
Cultural Studies of the Americas
George Yúdice, Jean Franco, and Juan Flores, Series Editors
Volu me 2 1
Cuban Currency: e Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction
Esther Whitfi eld
Volu me 2 0
Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons
of Mexico’s Northwest
Robert McKee Irwin
Volu me 19
Cuban Palimpsests
José Quiroga
Volu me 18
Cultural Residues: Chile in Transition
Nelly Richard
Volu me 17
Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles
Ileana Rodríguez
Volu me 16
Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and
Latin American Culture
Lúcia Sá
Volu me 15
Carnival eater: Uruguay’s Popular Performers
and National Culture
Gustavo Remedi
Volu me 1 4
Cuban Cinema
Michael Chanan
Volu me 13
Ethnography at the Border
Pablo Vila, Editor
Volu me 12
Critical Latin American and Latino Studies
Juan Poblete, Editor
Volu me 1 1
Mexican Masculinities
Robert McKee Irwin
Volu me 10
Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina
Susana Rotker
For more books in this series, see page 220.
Cuban Currency
e Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction
Esther Whitfi eld
Cultural Studies of the Americas, Volume 21
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis / London
Portions of chapters 2 and 3 were previously published in “Billetes buenos y
falsos: el dinero en la reciente narrativa cubana,”
Te m a s
32 (January–March
2003): 32–37. Portions of chapter 4 appeared in earlier form as “Dirty Auto-
biography: e Body Impolitic of
Trilogía sucia de la Habana,

Revista de
Estudios Hispánicos
36, no. 2 (May 2002): 329–51.
Copyright 2008 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
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permission of the publisher.
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
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Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Whitfi eld, Esther Katheryn.
Cuban currency : the dollar and “special period” fi ction / Esther
Whitfi eld.
p. cm. — (Cultural studies of the Americas ; 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5036-1 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8166-5036-5 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5037-8 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8166-5037-3 (pb : alk. paper)
1. Cuban literature—20th century—History and criticism.
2. Authorship—Economic aspects—Cuba—History—20th century.
I. Title.
pq7378.w552008
86.640953—dc22
2007044595
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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