She Is Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download She Is Cuba PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get She Is Cuba book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
She Is Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Melissa Blanco Borelli
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
She Is Cuba written by Melissa Blanco Borelli and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Performing Arts categories.
'She is Cuba' traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges: bodies watching, looking, touching and dancing with one another.
She Is Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Formento & Formento
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-04
She Is Cuba written by Formento & Formento and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-04 with categories.
She is CubaRicheille and I met on a photoshoot in 2005, she was the art director and I, the photographer. We fell in love and have been inseparable since. One of our first trips together was to Havana, Cuba. Here we discovered our common love for dance, music, wanderlust, and more importantly, our appreciation of the era and aesthetic that was the fifties. Cuba is the epitome of a 1950's time capsule. The Cubans have 50 years waiting and nothing changes. A revolution - which began in good faith but strayed from the path little by little - became something totally different from what Cubans expected when it triumphed. A shipwreck of splendor and decay; a place were the passing decades have created a haunting landscape, both beautiful and serene.We had always planned on returning and working on a photographic project that explored this sense of sadness and waiting. Destiny would have it and we returned in spring of 2014 after almost 10 years.In Cuba's forbidden allure to North Americans, images from its sun-drenched streets have become all too familiar: old cars, even older musicians, colorful costumes and dour revolutionary slogans. Yet those tired images fail to capture how time has also stopped for many Cubans whose lives are a daily endless routine of figuring out how to resolve the problem of the moment. Here amongst the crumbling walls of colonial architecture, the abandoned cinemas and early Vegas-style casinos, the streets of old Havana and all the glory that once was, we wanted to create elegiac "cinema-graphs" and have the radiant Cuban heroine play out the open ended drama. The mise-en-scéne captures the twilight of the Castro era, the imminent change, the struggle, anxiety and hope. Seeing the world through Cuban eyes was definitely inspiring and we hope our photographs can speak of beauty, despair and the waiting for the inevitable.Formento & FormentoMay 2014 New York City
The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Chanel Cleeton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-05-04
The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba written by Chanel Cleeton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Fiction categories.
Named one of 2021’s Most Anticipated Historical Novels and Best Beach Reads by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Travel + Leisure ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ Bustle ∙ SheReads ∙ Brit + Co and more! “An exciting and inspiring read that shows us how womanhood, courage and revolution are three words that often mean the same thing.”―NPR At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman—Evangelina Cisneros—who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper in 1896, she’s caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it’s a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life. Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women's jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learns of her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba," she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence. With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst's staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war, the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom.
When We Left Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Chanel Cleeton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-04-09
When We Left Cuba written by Chanel Cleeton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Fiction categories.
Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...
Last Dance In Havana
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Rosanna Ley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Last Dance In Havana written by Rosanna Ley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Fiction categories.
From the #1 Kindle Bestseller comes an exotic tale of love, family and friendship 'The perfect holiday companion' - Heat 'The ultimate feel-good read' - Candis 'Sun-soaked escapism' - Best ********** Cuba, 1958 Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he's the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to fight in Castro's army, and Elisa is forced to leave behind her homeland and rebuild her life in distant England. But how can she stop longing for the warmth of Havana, when the music of the rumba still calls to her? England, 2012 Grace has a troubled relationship with her father, whom she blames for her beloved mother's untimely death. And this year more than ever she could do with a shoulder to cry on - Grace's career is in flux, she isn't sure she wants the baby her husband is so desperate to have and, worst of all, she's begun to develop feelings for their best friend Theo. Theo is a Cuban born magician but even he can't make Grace's problems disappear. Is the passion Grace feels for Theo enough to risk her family's happiness? ******** SEE WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT ROSANNA LEY: 'An impeccably researched and deftly written narrative that kept me hooked until the end' - Kathryn Hughes, bestselling author of The Letter 'Loved it from start to finish. A brilliant holiday read' - Amazon reviewer 'Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Victoria Hislop and Leah Fleming' - Candis 'On so many levels a fantastic read' - Amazon reviewer 'A fascinating story with engaging themes' - Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife 'Warm, enthralling, one of my favourite authors' - Amazon reviewer
Dancing With Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Alma Guillermoprieto
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2004
Dancing With Cuba written by Alma Guillermoprieto and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience. Alma Guillermoprieto--an award-winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed observer of Latin America--now turns her keen powers of observation onto her own, younger self. In this richly evocative chronicle, Guillermoprieto describes the remarkable, transforming journey she made as a twenty-year-old, when her love of dance--which had led her from her native Mexico to the New York dance studios of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Twyla Tharp--took her to a job teaching poorly trained but ardent dance students in Cuba. At first unaffected by the revolutionary spirit and the adoration of Castro that pervaded the island, Guillermoprieto slowly fell under the spell of the idealism that buoyed the often destitute lives of the Cuban people. And as she opened herself to what became a complex, galvanizing revolutionary experience, she found, as well, the ideas and ideals that would shape her thinking for the rest of her life. Beautifully written and deeply felt, Dancing with Cuba is a revelatory account of the making of an impassioned political heart and mind.
Skywriting
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Margarita Engle
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1995
Skywriting written by Margarita Engle and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Cuba categories.
"Carmen Peregrin, conceived in the jungles of Cuba and raised in the California desert, is the child of two rebels betrayed by their revolution. All her life Carmen has dreamed of the Cuban half brother she has never met. At last, during the hurricane season, she arrives in Old Havana to meet him, finding Camilo is not as she has imagined him all these years. By morning he is gone, setting out for freedom across ninety miles of sea on a raft made of inner tubes bound together by twine and hope." "Carmen waits with Camilo's mother - the stoic Marisol, herself a onetime revolutionary - for news of his fate on the daily broadcasts from Miami's Radio Marti, but his name does not appear on the list of balseros who have survived the crossing. Instead, once Carmen has reluctantly returned home to North America, she learns that Camilo has disappeared deep within the belly of the Viper, Cuba's most infamous prison. His fate lends a darker urgency to the package he has asked her to smuggle into the United States, to be opened once she is safely out of Cuba." "Back in the States, as she struggles to make contact with Marisol and to buy Camilo's release, Carmen opens the mysterious packet - and with it, a door into the past. She finds a 500-year-old chronicle of her family's history, tales of the unquiet ghosts of her renegade father, assassinated before her birth; of the ancestor who escaped the Inquisition to seek pearls and cinnamon across the sea and married a beautiful and enigmatic Cuban Indian; of the martyred Cuban poet Jose Marti, who sang of love, homeland, freedom, and music; of Cuba itself and its long history of outrages and absurdities, dreams and tyrannies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This Is Cuba
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : David Ariosto
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2018-12-11
This Is Cuba written by David Ariosto and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with History categories.
USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December" "Fascinating." —Forbes Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view. This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is offered the chance of a lifetime—a two-year assignment in Havana. For David Ariosto, the island is an intriguing new world, unmoored from the one he left behind. From neighboring military coups, suspected honey traps, salty spooks, and desperate migrants to dissidents, doctors, and Havana’s empty shelves, Ariosto uncovers the island’s subtle absurdities, its Cold War mystique, and the hopes of a people in the throes of transition. Beyond the classic cars, salsa, and cigars lies a country in which black markets are ubiquitous, free speech is restricted, privacy is curtailed, sanctions wreak havoc, and an almost Kafka-esque goo of Soviet-style bureaucracy still slows the gears of an economy desperate to move forward. But life in Cuba is indeed changing, as satellite dishes and internet hotspots dot the landscape and more Americans want in. Still, it’s not so simple. The old sentries on both sides of the Florida Straits remain at their posts, fists clenched and guarding against the specter of a Cold War that never quite ended, despite the death of Fidel and the hand-over of the presidency to a man whose last name isn’t Castro. And now, a crisis is brewing. In This Is Cuba, Ariosto looks at Cuba from the inside-out over the course of nine years, endeavoring to expose clues for what’s in store for the island as it undergoes its biggest change in more than half a century.
Havana Real
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Yoani Sanchez
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2011-04-26
Havana Real written by Yoani Sanchez and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with History categories.
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.
Cuba Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Ada Ferrer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-06-28
Cuba Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize written by Ada Ferrer 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 2022-06-28 with History categories.
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued--through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington--Barack Obama's opening to the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden--have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the influence of the United States on Cuba and the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. --