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The island called paradise : Cuba in history, literature, and the arts / / Philip D. Beidler



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Autore: Beidler Philip D. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The island called paradise : Cuba in history, literature, and the arts / / Philip D. Beidler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina: 972.91
Soggetto topico: National characteristics, Cuban
Soggetto geografico: Cuba In popular culture
Cuba In literature
Cuba In art
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Cuba and the imagination -- Romancing Cecilia Valdes -- Un militar espanol de origen venezolano -- Mambises in whiteface -- The ghost of Walker Evans -- Ignacio Pineiro, George Gershwin, and the Schillinger system -- The secret life of Ricky Ricardo -- Good neighbor Batista -- The two Ernestos -- Steverino in Gangsterland -- Why no one in Havana speaks of Graham Greene -- Inspector Renko on the Malecon -- The example of Yoani Sanchez -- Conclusion : the autumn of the comandante.
Sommario/riassunto: A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa. In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery of the vast, rich, and astonishing history of the island of Cuba and the interrelatedness of Cuba and the U.S. Cuba first entered Beidler's consciousness in the early 1960's when he watched with mesmerized anxiety the televised reports of the Cuban missile crisis, a conflict that reduced a...
Titolo autorizzato: The island called paradise  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8743-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787612403321
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