Cuban Heritage

Author : Pablo Alonso González
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813072692

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Cuban Cultural Heritage by Pablo Alonso González Pdf

The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial Cuba During Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols. By changing uses of the past in the present, they were able to shift ideologies, power relations, epistemological conceptions, and economic contexts into the Cuba we know today. Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from Spain in 1898 and moving through Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014, Pablo Alonso González illustrates how political and ideological shifts have influenced ideas about heritage and how, in turn, heritage has been used by different social actors to reiterate their status, spread new ideologies, and consolidate political regimes. Unveiling the connections between heritage, power, and ideology, Alonso González delves into the intricacies of Cuban history, covering key issues such as Cuba's cultural and political relationships with Spain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and so-called Third World countries; the complexities of Cuba's status as a postcolonial state; and the potential future paths of the Revolution in the years to come. This volume offers a detailed look at the function and place of cultural heritage under socialist states. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Tamra Orr
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534109360

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Cuban Heritage by Tamra Orr Pdf

Cuban Heritage in the Celebrating Diversity in My Classroom series explores the geography, languages, religions, food, and culture of Cuba in a fun age-appropriate way. Students with Cuban heritage are a significant and important part of the fabric of America and this book helps foster empathy in all students and a multi-cultural community in the classroom. Glossary, index, and additional backmatter aids further learning.

Author : Paul Niell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292766617

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Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba by Paul Niell Pdf

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana's central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana's founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authenticity, civic achievement, and social order. Paul Niell analyzes how Cubans produced heritage at the site of the symbolic ceiba tree by endowing the collective urban space of the plaza with a cultural authority that used the past to validate various place identities in the present. Niell's close examination of the extant forms of the 1754 and 1828 civic monuments, which include academic history paintings, neoclassical architecture, and idealized sculpture in tandem with period documents and printed texts, reveals a "dissonance of heritage"—in other words, a lack of agreement as to the works' significance and use. He considers the implications of this dissonance with respect to a wide array of interests in late colonial Havana, showing how heritage as a dominant cultural discourse was used to manage and even disinherit certain sectors of the colonial population.

Author : Rachel Carley
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0823011283

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Cuba by Rachel Carley Pdf

Traces the architectural history of Cuba over the past four centuries and explains, through photographs, the link between Cuba's culture and architecture

Author : Andrea O’Reilly Herrera
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292731477

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ReMembering Cuba by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera Pdf

One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photographs, and paintings to capture the strong emotions surrounding this ongoing ordeal. Simultaneous.

Author : Victor Deupi,Jean-Francois Lejeune
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035616446

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Cuban Modernism by Victor Deupi,Jean-Francois Lejeune Pdf

In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake. The designs comprise luxurious nightclubs and stylish hotels, sports facilities, elegant private homes and apartment complexes. Drawing on the vernacular, their architects defined a way to be modern and Cuban at the same time – creating an architecture oscillating between tradition and avantgarde. Audacious concrete shells, curving ramps, elegant brises-soleils and a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces are characteristic of an airy, often colorful architecture well-suited to life in the tropics. New photographs and drawings were specially prepared for this publication. A biographical survey portraits the 40 most important Cuban architects of the era.

Author : Paulette A. Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9766408165

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The West Indian Presence and Heritage in Cuba by Paulette A. Ramsay Pdf

Voluntary migration from Jamaica to Cuba began in 1875 when a small group of Jamaicans went to Cuba to participate in the War of Independence as part of the Cuban Liberation Army. A second wave of migration from Jamaica to Cuba occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when West Indians sought opportunities to work on sugar plantations and in the sugar mills. As the demand for sugar increased worldwide, many West Indians travelled to Cuba between the 1920s and the 1960s, when they started to work on the US naval base in Guantanamo. The chapters of this book speak in different ways to the links, lost and maintained, between West Indian descendants in Cuba and Jamaica. Communities in Guantánamo, Banes, Santiago de Cuba and other areas are testimonies of the interest in maintaining connections and sharing their West Indian historical and cultural heritage. This book bears witness to the tremendous contributions of West Indians to the Cuban nation and to nation building worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172104133666

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Cuban Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Antón,Roger E. Hernández
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000077674277

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Cubans in America by Alex Antón,Roger E. Hernández Pdf

Presents a glimpse into four centuries of Cubans in America, from the sixteenth century to the present day, and profiles such noted Cubans as Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and Jeff Bezos.

Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798008

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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

Author : Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970804

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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.

Author : Monica Olivera
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1794304673

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My Cuban Heritage Journal: (heritage Journals Series) by Monica Olivera Pdf

My Cuban Heritage Journal is an opportunity for children to explore and record their own Cuban family heritage. Inside this journal are pages that allow kids to draw their own family tree, record and describe where in Cuba their family is from, paste photographs or draw images of family members, and record their favorite memories or stories. Fun facts about Cuba are scattered throughout the book. And there is even a section at the back of the book for writing down family recipes.This journal is meant to be a keepsake that kids can share with other family members and treasure for a long time.

Author : M. Delores Carlito
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810856808

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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.

Author : David Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683403320

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Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away by David Powell Pdf

Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959.

Author : Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271073675

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International Migration in Cuba by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez Pdf

Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences. In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.