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Havana beyond the ruins : cultural mappings after 1989 / Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield, editors.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2011 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Birkenmaier, Anke.
Whitfield, Esther Katheryn.
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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