Contents
Preface
Introduction: Beyond the Ruins
Part I. Mapping Havana: Citizenship and the City
1. Visits to a Non-Place: Havana and Its Representation(s)
2. The Bitter Trinquennium and the Dystopian City: Autopsy of a Utopia
3. Barbacoas: Havana’s New Inward Frontier
4. The ‘‘Slums’’ of Havana
5. Havana and Its Landscapes: A Vision for Future Reconstruction of Cuban Cities
6. The Illegible City: Havana after the Messiah
Havana: A Photo-Essay
Part II. Havana’s Shifting Margins
7. The City in Midair
8. Made in Havana City: Rap Music, Space, and Racial Politics
9. Urban Performance Pieces in Fragmented Form: A Reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio José Ponte
10. Topographies of Cosmonauts in Havana: Proyecto Vostokand Insausti’s Existen
11. Touring Havana in the Work of Ronaldo Menéndez
Part III. Coda
12. La Habana: City and Archive
13. Bitter Daiquiris: A Crystal Chronicle
Glossary
References
Contributors
Index