Birkenmaier / Whitfield Havana beyond the Ruins

Cultural Mappings after 1989
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9442-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birkenmaier, Anke

Whitfield, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface Introduction: Beyond the Ruins Part I. Mapping Havana: Citizenship and the City 1. Visits to a Non-Place: Havana and Its Representation(s) 2. The Bitter Trinquennium and the Dystopian City: Autopsy of a Utopia 3. Barbacoas: Havana’s New Inward Frontier 4. The ‘‘Slums’’ of Havana 5. Havana and Its Landscapes: A Vision for Future Reconstruction of Cuban Cities 6. The Illegible City: Havana after the Messiah Havana: A Photo-Essay Part II. Havana’s Shifting Margins 7. The City in Midair 8. Made in Havana City: Rap Music, Space, and Racial Politics 9. Urban Performance Pieces in Fragmented Form: A Reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio José Ponte 10. Topographies of Cosmonauts in Havana: Proyecto Vostokand Insausti’s Existen 11. Touring Havana in the Work of Ronaldo Menéndez Part III. Coda 12. La Habana: City and Archive 13. Bitter Daiquiris: A Crystal Chronicle Glossary References Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anke Birkenmaier is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University.Esther Whitfield is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.