Karen Dubinsky

Cuba beyond the Beach (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Life in Havana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents-old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors-go about their daily lives.

As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen's University Student Overseas Travel Fund-The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Between the Lines
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771132701
• Artikelnr.: 54363747

Autorenporträt

Karen Dubinsky started visiting Cuba in 1978, and has lived in Havana intermittently since 2004. She is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University and co-teaches a course in Havana for Queen's students. She is the author of The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls and the co-editor of My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela