| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Post-communism -- Cuba
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City planning -- Cuba -- Havana
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
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City planning
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Civilization
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Intellectual life
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Post-communism
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| SUBJECT |
Havana (Cuba) -- Intellectual life
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Havana (Cuba) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
Cuba
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Cuba -- Havana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Birkenmaier, Anke
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Whitfield, Esther Katheryn
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| LC no. |
2011006307 |
| ISBN |
0822394421 |
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9780822394426 |
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1283273349 |
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9781283273343 |
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9786613273345 |
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6613273341 |
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