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Ay, Cuba! : a socio-erotic journey / Andrei Codrescu ; photographs by David Graham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuba--Description and travel.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Social life and customs--1959-.
- Manners and customs.
- Codrescu, Andrei, 1946---Travel--Cuba.
- Codrescu, Andrei.
- Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-.
- Travel.
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- During a Historic visit to Cuba - on the eve of Pope John Paul ll's own trip - National Public Radio's Andrei Codrescu and photographer David Graham turned an unsparing but compassionate gaze upon Cuba. Registering the architecture, the bizarre two-tier economy of peso and dollar, the revivals of both Catholicism and the Afro-Cuban religion of santeria, and the sexual and social mores of a post-cold war communist society, Codrescu's words and Graham's photographs offer a vision of Cuba's brutally stark and sometimes-tragic reality, as seen through the fascinating prism of Codrescu's own eccentric genius. Through interviews with Cuban architects, writers, hustlers, prostitutes, and common working folk, Ay, Cuba! reveals a passionate society deeply in conflict with itself. This is not a cold, cross-sectioned study of Cuba, but rather a highly personal, human portrait of a proud, musical, smart, and sexy people.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-206).
- ISBN:
- 0312198310
- OCLC:
- 39786784
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