Havana beyond the ruins
Subtitle: cultural mappings after 1989
By: Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780822350521; 9780822350705
Subjects: Post-communism; Intellectual life; Civilization; City planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visits to a non-place : Havana and its representation(s) / Velia Cecilia Bobes; title: The bitter trinquennium and the dystopian city : autopsy of a utopia / Mario Coyula; title: Barbacoas : Havana's new inward frontier / Patricio Del Real and Joseph Scarpaci; title: The "slums" of Havana / Jill Hamberg; title: Havana and its landscapes : a vision for future reconstruction of Cuban cities / Nicolás Quintana; title: The illegible city : Havana after the Messiah / Rafael Rojas; title: Havana : a photo-essay / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo; title: The city in midair / Emma Alvarez-Tabío Albo; title: Made in Havana City : rap music, space, and racial politics / Sujatha Fernandes; title: Urban performance pieces in fragmented form : a reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio Jose Ponte / Cecelia Lawless; title: Topographies of cosmonauts in Havana : Proyecto Vostok and Insausti's Existen / Jacqueline Loss; title: Touring Havana in the work of Ronaldo Menéndez / Laura Redruello; title: La Habana : city and archive / Antonio José Ponte; title: Bitter daiquiris : a crystal chronicle / José Quiroga.