Cuban Women In Love
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From Cuba With Love
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Author : Megan D. Daigle
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-01-16
From Cuba With Love written by Megan D. Daigle and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-16 with Social Science categories.
From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the violence experienced by young women suspected of involvement with foreigners at the hands of a moralistic state, an opportunistic police force, and even their own families and partners. Investigating the lived realities of the Cuban women (and some men) who date tourists and offering a unique perspective on the surrounding debates, From Cuba with Love raises issues about women’s bodies–what they can or should do and, equally, what can be done to them. Daigle’s provocative perspective will make readers question how race and politics in Cuba are tied to women and sex, and the ways in which political power acts directly on the bodies of individuals through law, policing, institutional programs, and social norms.
Cuban Women In Love
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Author : Emma Marschall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Cuban Women In Love written by Emma Marschall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Cuban literature categories.
Managing Tourist Hearts
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Author : Anne-Mette Groth Hermansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Managing Tourist Hearts written by Anne-Mette Groth Hermansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
As a consequence of Cuba's severe mid-1990s economic crisis and the government's attempt to remedy it by investing in the tourism sector, a new interactional space has opened up, providing Cubans with the opportunity to form economically advantageous relationships with foreigners. This thesis contributes to the anthropological understanding of the lifeworlds of Cuban women who engage in relationships with foreign men that are sexualized and commercialized to various degrees. These touristic encounters are morally and ideologically contested in late socialist Cuba. They are also characterized by an ambiguous tension, as the women have to manage foreign men's expectations regarding exchanges of love and money. Based on six months of fieldwork in Havana, I examine the components and developments of such relationships and discuss the women's particular role. I highlight their agency as they capitalize on touristic desires and fantasies of the exotic and erotic Caribbean Other, simultaneously reproducing a system of sexualized, racialized and gendered inequalities. Through a discussion of the methodologies employed in the research, I question the analytical use of empirical categories in anthropological analysis. I argue that emic categories applied to relationships between Cuban women and foreign men are political and normative markers of social statuses, but are not valid analytical units.
Dreaming In Cuban
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Author : Cristina García
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-06-08
Dreaming In Cuban written by Cristina García and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Fiction categories.
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Mangos Bananas And Coconuts A Cuban Love Story
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Author : Himilce Novas
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1996-06-30
Mangos Bananas And Coconuts A Cuban Love Story written by Himilce Novas and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-30 with Fiction categories.
The twin protagonists of Mangos, Bananas and Coconuts emerge from the lush tropics of the Cuban countryside like Caribbean Tristans and Isoldes, bound to each other in an eternal embrace that neither politics nor geography, nor the ill-will of family and society can break. Like so many timeless tales, Mangos, Bananas and Coconuts begins with the love of a man and a woman from opposite ends of the social strata and rises to mythic proportions as their newly born twins are separated at birth. The son is raised in wealth and privilege in the affluent exile community of Florida; the daughter and her father scratch out a living in New YorkÍs Spanish Harlem. In spite of the realistically portrayed social and economic differences in their upbringing, destiny and all of the forces of fate and chance conspire to bring together the twin protagonists in an ingenious and sincerely amorous embrace. The four elements of natureearth, wind, fire, and waterall participate in this magically real world, where their parentsÍ mystical union has lead to a quest for a second and more fulfilled and transcendent one.
The Breath Of Cuba Part 2 Passion Play One Woman S Love Affair With The Magic Music And Men Of Cuba
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Author : Cheri Shanti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05
The Breath Of Cuba Part 2 Passion Play One Woman S Love Affair With The Magic Music And Men Of Cuba written by Cheri Shanti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05 with Travel categories.
Cubana Linda
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Author : Ava Soteras-Gutierrez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04
Cubana Linda written by Ava Soteras-Gutierrez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04 with categories.
We sit on the shoulders of great women, whether they came to the New World as slaves, European or Asian emigrants, or indigenous women who were overtaken by an alien culture. I relish in my diversity, my 'bouillabaise' of blood lines, whether the Spanish, Italian, West African, or Taino parts of me. What a legacy! What a stew! We blithely take so many rights for granted: the right to own property; reproductive rights; to walk out of your home without a male escort; to choose to marry the one you love, even marry someone of your own sex; to read; to think and say what you want without censorship from a male member of your family, or any other male for that matter. This is the story of the remarkable Cuban women, some of whom make up my family tree-- brave, beautiful, resourceful, intelligent and memorable, each and every one.
Dirty Blonde And Half Cuban
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Author : Lisa Wixon
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Dirty Blonde And Half Cuban written by Lisa Wixon and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
Based on the wildly popular, semi-autobiographical "Havana Honey" series published by Salon.com, Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban is a gritty portrait of one woman's determination to infiltrate modern Cuba and find the father she has never known. While on her search, privileged American Alysia Briggs ends up broke and alone in Havana. She's then forced to adopt the life of the jineteras -- educated Cuban women who supplement a desperate income by accommodating sex tourists. With an eye for detail and a razor wit, Lisa Wixon relates Alysia's journey and creates a love song to Cuba, a heartfelt tribute to a resilient people facing soul-numbing poverty in a land where M.D.s and Ph.D.s earn $18 a month, and a pair of jeans costs twice as much.
Conga Lu
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Author : Cuba Giblin
language : en
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Release Date : 2021-03-05
Conga Lu written by Cuba Giblin and has been published by Gatekeeper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From crushes to Castro, freedom to fear, barefoot feet to big city streets, follow the ordinary, yet extraordinary lives of two strong Cuban women – Conga & Lu, a true story of family, country, survival, and love. Conga’s idyllic childhood with a wealthy prestigious family in Havana is happy and carefree. Lu, a young black woman from rural Matanzas, becomes Conga’s nanny. Their bond will transcend age, race, and privilege. But when Fidel Castro assumes power, the revolution transforms Cuba forever, and their ties will be tested by distance and time. With her doll and some clothes, Conga and her brother are desperately flown to the United States among 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children during Operation Peter Pan. Conga must quickly adapt to poverty and a new culture, while holding on to Cuban roots in exile. Under Castro’s new government, Lu struggles to care for her own children. Beset by hardship, misfortune, heartbreak, and an endless search for a home and happiness, she never loses her positivity and faith. From the days before the revolution to the present, Conga and Lu’s indomitable spirits triumph over historic obstacles. After nearly sixty years, Conga returns and finds Cuba torn apart, her home unrecognizable, with the mysteries of her lost family and Lu’s whereabouts unsolved. Filled with tears, smiles, and memories, Conga’s past becomes the present. But will Lu will still be there?
A Greek Love
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Author : Zoé Valdés
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-05-02
A Greek Love written by Zoé Valdés and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with Fiction categories.
For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the “Greek sailormen's whore,” teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture, where her mother's sister, a music scholar, lives and where she will raise her child mentored by these three older women—aunt, mother, and Osiris. Years later, Zé’s son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while Zé has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, Zé seeks permission from the authorities to leave the island and accompany him. Secretly—a secret they guard from the authorities and her father, now a Party stalwart—they both nourish the hope of somehow finding Petros’s father and Zé’s one great, lost love. With echoes of the breakout novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary star, A Greek Love is a tale of passion, endurance, and hope—and a woman's tenacious love.