The Havana Habit - Couverture souple

Perez-Firmat, Gustavo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300177895 ISBN 13 : 9780300177893

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Havana Habit Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title, the author probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the islands influences on Americas cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life. From John Quincy Adamss comparison of Cuba to an apple ready to drop into Americas lap, to the latest episodes in the lives of the comic comandantes and exotic exiles, and to such notable Cuban exports as the rumba and the mambo, cigars and mojitos, the Cuba that emerges from these pages is a locale that Cubans and Americans have jointly imagined and inhabited. The Havana Habit deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as Pérez Firmat writes, so near and yet so foreign.

Biographie de l'auteur :

A poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and scholar, Gustavo Pérez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Pérez Firmat is the author of eighteen books; his study of Cuban American culture, Life on the Hyphen, was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden University Press National Book Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300177895
• ISBN 13: 9780300177893
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256