Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1068228928
Cuba Theme Issue
Anonim
Cuba Theme Issue
Cuba Theme Issue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Cuba Theme Issue book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García
Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798008
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García Pdf
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
Arturo Almandoz
Author : Arturo Almandoz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136767210
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950 by Arturo Almandoz Pdf
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.
Cuba Confidential
Ann Louise Bardach
Author : Ann Louise Bardach
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307425423
Cuba Confidential by Ann Louise Bardach Pdf
From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.
Cuba Style
Vicki Gold Levi,Steven Heller
Author : Vicki Gold Levi,Steven Heller
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568983603
Cuba Style by Vicki Gold Levi,Steven Heller Pdf
Touring the commercial graphic culture of pre-Castro Cuba, photography curator Levi and senior art director for The New York Times Heller present color reproductions of postcards, tourism advertisements, cigar boxes, music poster, hotel advertisements, and other items that combined graphic styles from the United States with a distinctive Cuban style. A brief introductory essay extols the virtue of this "golden age" of graphic design, noting that Cuba was portrayed as a "paradise" (for wealthy Americans and Europeans). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts
Mauricio A. Font,Araceli Tinajero
Author : Mauricio A. Font,Araceli Tinajero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315525006
Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts by Mauricio A. Font,Araceli Tinajero Pdf
First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Race in Cuba
Esteban Morales Domínguez
Author : Esteban Morales Domínguez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583673201
Race in Cuba by Esteban Morales Domínguez Pdf
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post-revolutionary context. Today, he is one of Cuba’s most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals and its leading authority on the race question. Available for the first time in English, the essays collected here describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward. Morales Dominguez surveys the major advancements in race relations that occurred as a result of the revolution, but does not ignore continuing signs of inequality and discrimination. Instead, he argues that the revolution must be an ongoing process and that to truly transform society it must continue to confront the question of race in Cuba.
Cuban Intersections of Literary and Urban Spaces
Carlos Riobó
Author : Carlos Riobó
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438442570
Cuban Intersections of Literary and Urban Spaces by Carlos Riobó Pdf
Cuban Intersections of Literary and Urban Spaces examines Havana as a center where urban and literary spaces often come together. The idea for this collection of essays grew out of an international conference on Cuba, Cuba Futures: Past and Present, held by the City University of New York's Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies at CUNY's Graduate Center in 2011, but evolved out of a collaboration with scholars in the fields of literature, architecture, urban planning, and library science. The topics addressed peek at a dynamic Cuban nation through its cultural interstices at a crucial moment in the island's evolving history. This conference proceeding opens with a piece on the intersections between Havana's colonial built environment and the literary aesthetic of the Baroque in the Caribbean. The collection continues with the following areas of study: urban gardens, urban planning, architecture, literary projections on space, international relations and cultural institutions, access to books, and social policies.
Cuban-American Fiction in English
M. Delores Carlito
Author : M. Delores Carlito
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810856808
Cuban-American Fiction in English by M. Delores Carlito Pdf
This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Clara Irazábal
Author : Clara Irazábal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134326242
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events by Clara Irazábal Pdf
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Cuban Studies 34
Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon
Author : Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0822942194
Cuban Studies 34 by Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon Pdf
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Havana Before Castro
Peter Moruzzi
Author : Peter Moruzzi
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781423609933
Havana Before Castro by Peter Moruzzi Pdf
Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera. Featuring hundreds of historic images and cultural artifacts, Havana Before Castro documents how the Cuban capital evolved from a Prohibition Era getaway destination to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday—before the Castro regime took over and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise. In chapters covering such topics as Cuban rum and cigars, the world-famous Tropicana Club, and Havana’s association with the mob, author Peter Moruzzi provides essential historical context for the many fascinating and evocative images.
Cuban Palimpsests
Jose Quiroga
Author : Jose Quiroga
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816642141
Cuban Palimpsests by Jose Quiroga Pdf
Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world’s attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly defined national and collective memory that led directly from a colonial past to a utopian future, but this narrative came to a halt in the early 1990s. The collapse of Cuba’s sponsor, the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War preceded the so- called “Special Period in Times of Peace,” a euphemistic phrase that masked the genuine anxiety shared by leaders and people about the nation’s future. In Cuban Palimpsests, José Quiroga explores the sites, both physical and imaginative, where memory bears upon Cuba’s collective history in ways that illuminate this extended moment of uncertainty. Crossing geographical, political, and cultural borders, Quiroga moves with ease between Cuba, Miami, and New York. He traces generational shifts within the exile community, contrasts Havana’s cultural richness with its economic impoverishment, follows the cloak-and-dagger narratives of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary spy fiction and film, and documents the world’s ongoing fascination with Cuban culture. From the nostalgic photographs of Walker Evans to the iconic stature of Fidel Castro, from the literary expressions of despair to the beat of Cuban musical rhythms, from the haunting legacy of artist Ana Mendieta to the death of Celia Cruz and the reburial of Che Guevara, Cuban Palimpsests memorializes the ruins of Cuba’s past and offers a powerful meditation on its enigmatic place within the new world order. José Quiroga is professor and department chair of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. He is the author of Understanding Octavio Paz and Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America.
Living Ideology in Cuba
Katherine Gordy
Author : Katherine Gordy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472052615
Living Ideology in Cuba by Katherine Gordy Pdf
A revealing look at the complicated and continual negotiation between the Cuban state and society over the meaning of socialism
Cuba 1988
Voice of America-Radio Marti Program,Office of Research and Policy,United States Information Agency
Author : Voice of America-Radio Marti Program,Office of Research and Policy,United States Information Agency
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 088738420X
Cuba 1988 by Voice of America-Radio Marti Program,Office of Research and Policy,United States Information Agency Pdf
Prepared by the research department of Radio Marti, which has been broadcasting to Cuba since 1985, the annual incorporates the year's Quarterly situation reports, providing an overview of events and conditions in connection with foreign policy, economics, military affairs and social development, domestic policy, and ideological control. No index. (c) by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
