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Cuba beyond the beach : stories of life in Havana / Karen Dubinsky.

by Dubinsky, Karen.

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Between the Lines, 2016.

917.29123 D814c

Dubinsky, Karen -- Travel -- Cuba -- Havana.

Havana (Cuba) -- Description and travel.

Havana (Cuba) -- Biography.

Havana (Cuba) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.

Cuba -- Description and travel

Cuba -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.

9781771132695 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Stories of life in Havana

x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

"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. 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"--Provided by publisher.

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