Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Description:

xiv, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

9780822350521 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822350521 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822350705 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
082235070X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Post-communism Cuba.
City planning Cuba Havana.
Postcommunisme Cuba.
City planning.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Post-communism.
Havana (Cuba) Intellectual life.
Havana (Cuba) Civilization.
Cuba.
Cuba Havana.

Added entries:

Birkenmaier, Anke.
Whitfield, Esther Katheryn.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274673
Call No.: BIB 208522
Status: Available