Havana without Makeup (eBook)
248 Seiten
Turtle Point Press (Verlag)
978-1-933527-92-5 (ISBN)
Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insiders view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the cultural, political, economic, and religious influences that led up to this historic moment and beyond. Readers are led by a brilliant renaissance man and writer who has been at the vanguard of the citys struggles for more than twenty years. Portocareros anti-tourist guide to Havana examines the built environment of the most sensual ruin on the planet: why are large parts of the city so neglected, and what changes may we see over the coming years? Examining all things Cubania--racial issues, la revolucin, baseball, Hemingway, communism, synagogues, Santeria, Cimarron culture, and much more--Portocarero overturns every stone in his endeavor to bring us inside the city he loves.Illustrated with original photographs, this is a unique and essential account of Havanas history, its present, and what its future may hold.Herman Portocarero is a Belgian-born writer and diplomat of Spanish and Portuguese descent. He has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Hercule Poirot Prize-winning crime novel New Yorkse Nachten (New York Nights). He is presently the European Union ambassador to Cuba.
lt;div>Herman Portocarero is a European diplomat and writer, born in Antwerp, Belgium, of Spanish ancestry. He is currently the ambassador of the European Union in Havana, after a career spent between New York and the Caribbean. He was previously ambassador of his native country in Cuba and Jamaica, where he also lived and worked as a much younger diplomat.
Thanks to his professional trajectory, he has been familiar with the region since the 1980s and with Cuba since 1995. He has unparalleled knowledge and understanding of Cuban history, politics, and society, and of the relationship between Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Portocarero has published over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction in Europe. He authored the libretto for the oratorio Flamma Flamma by composer Nicholas Lens (available on Sony Masterworks), a monumental work popular with audiences of neo-classical music. He is also a gifted public speaker, and was one of the pioneers to launch TED talks in Havana in 2014.
His Havana without Makeup is the crowning achievement of a career in writing pursued in parallel with his diplomatic activities. He mixes narrative skills and a novelist’s feeling for people and places, with tireless searches for the truth behind the façade. Applied to Havana, a city he acknowledges to be in love with, this results in a kaleidoscopic visit full of unexpected angles and insights.
1.Walls of Illusion3
2.Exceptional 6
3.Nocturnas (Havana-By-Night) 7
4.Afro Cuba10
5.Havana in Black and White12
6.Rumba13
7.Santeria 14
8.Santeria and the Racial Divide15
9.Communist Orishas? 16
10.Salsa!19
11.Asia de Cuba20
12.‘Achinado’ 22
13.Sex & Cenesex23
14.Tremenda Mariconada!25
15.Havana’s Hour Zero26
16.Proposal for a Controversial Monument 27
17.Good Money, Bad Money29
18.The Economy as a Book and a Beast30
19.Looking West – To Asia Again32
20.La Mula Como Vaca De Leche34
21.La Libreta 35
22.El Canonazo 37
23.The Last Salvo39
24.A Defining Moment40
25.It Takes (At Least) Two to Rumba42
26.Sitting Down (And More) With Europe 44
27.Cuba No Soy (I Am Not Cuba) 47
28.Trafic Lights of History48
29.Ghosts of Revolutions Past50
30.Much Louder Ghosts 52
31.Napoleon in Cuba53
32.The Orestes Ferrara Secret 55
33.The Cave at the End of the World57
34.Conversation in Café del Oriente 60
35.Palacio de la Revolucion63
36.Who’s the Terrorist? 64
37.Parque Lenin66
38.Playas del este67
39.Jardines de la Tropical69
40.Two Shores of Art Deco70
41.Rum and Cigar Wars71
42.Waves Over the Walls72
43.Patria es Humanidad es Patria75
44.Havana’s Palestinians76
45.Next Year in Havana / Jerusalem 78
46.Cantos de Ida y Vuelta81
47.Mulatas de Rumba & Puellae Gaditanae84
48.Alma Mater85
49.God’s Crocodile 88
50.La Fabrica 90
51.Mercenaries 91
52.Bloggers Breakfast93
53.Primero de Mayo94
54.The Pen & the Sword96
55.Prima Ballerina Assoluta100
56.Le Parisien102
57.Hatuey & Huracan103
58.Todo el Mundo Canta105
59.Who’s the Boss?107
60.The Holy Spirit on the Plaza de la Revolucion 108
61.Winners and Losers109
62.Jacobins & Dinosaurs110
63.Other Churches, Other Gods111
64.Misionero de la Misericordia113
65.Mozart in Havana115
66.Art & Politics116
67.Pelota117
68.The United Mobsters120
69.Una Mal Criada122
70.Hollywood Havana123
71.Pirates of all Kinds125
72.Elian128
73.New York Connections130
74.Music has no enemies?131
75.El Paquete133
76.Hemingway134
77.Fuster136
78.The Last Cimmaron137
79.Fabelo139
80.KCHO/STAINLESS/CUTY140
81.Casa Verde142
82.Rio Almendares145
83.Havana and the Chocolate Factory145
84.Tallapiedra (Havana High Line)146
85.Radio Reloj & Radio Bemba148
86.La Muerte149
87.Apotheosis150
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.8.2017 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Baseball • Castro • communism • Cuba • cuban missile crisis • Culture • dictator • Diplomacy • Havana • Hemingway • Hercule Poirot Prize • Herman Portocarero • JFK • Judaism • Memoir • nuclear holocaust • Oppression • Race • Religion • Socialism • Sociology • soviet propaganda • Tourism • Travel • Travelogue |
| ISBN-10 | 1-933527-92-7 / 1933527927 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-933527-92-5 / 9781933527925 |
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