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Havana beyond the ruins : cultural mappings after 1989 / Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Cuba.
- Post-communism.
- City planning--Cuba--Havana.
- City planning.
- Havana (Cuba)--Intellectual life.
- Havana (Cuba).
- Havana (Cuba)--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
- Contents:
- Visits to a non-place : Havana and its representation(s) / Velia Cecilia Bobes
- The bitter trinquennium and the dystopian city : autopsy of a utopia / Mario Coyula
- Barbacoas : Havana's new inward frontier / Patricio Del Real and Joseph Scarpaci
- The "slums" of Havana / Jill Hamberg
- Havana and its landscapes : a vision for future reconstruction of Cuban cities / Nicolás Quintana
- The illegible city : Havana after the Messiah / Rafael Rojas
- Havana : a photo-essay / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
- The city in midair / Emma Alvarez-Tabío Albo
- Made in Havana City : rap music, space, and racial politics / Sujatha Fernandes
- Urban performance pieces in fragmented form : a reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio Jose Ponte / Cecelia Lawless
- Topographies of cosmonauts in Havana : Proyecto Vostok and Insausti's Existen / Jacqueline Loss
- Touring Havana in the work of Ronaldo Menéndez / Laura Redruello
- La Habana : city and archive / Antonio José Ponte
- Bitter daiquiris : a crystal chronicle / José Quiroga.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613273345
- 9781283273343
- 1283273349
- 9780822394426
- 0822394421
- OCLC:
- 752862203
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