ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the existence of a post-Soviet revolutionary subject today can be attributed to the generous terms of engagement of a compromised intellectual activity as well as to a particular gender culture that has helped shape the relationship between socialism and sociality in Cuba. It focuses on post-Soviet Cuba as a cultural trend and it proposes to see post-Soviet Cuba within an ethics of consumption. The chapter examines the changing ethical paradigms in literature that, by rendering gendered cultural values visible in more or less provocative ways, help unveil the surreptitious ways in which the revolution created a specific affect while politicizing traditional notions of sociality. Socialist legality is based on the notion of a specific type of social contract.
