Havana Habit
Gustavo Perez-Firmat
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Description
An acclaimed poet and critic presents an affectionate examination of Cuba in America's cultural imagination. "This short, breezy, and often amusing examination of American perceptions of Cuba is both timely and informative. . . . Pérez Firmat has handled this topic with a light, humorous touch without diminishing its more serious aspects."-Jay Freeman, Booklist "Mr. Pérez Firmat catalogs the ways in which Cuba has influenced American tastes and infiltrated American culture . . . to suggest the pride of place Havana once had in the American imagination."-Eric Felten, Wall Street Journal "A tale of two closely tied cultures, The Havana Habit is told with both élan and humor."-Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Product Details
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Publish Date | February 01, 2012 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780300177893 |
| Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.7 inches | 0.6 pounds |
About the Author
A poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and scholar, Gustavo Pérez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University.
Reviews
"A brilliant and engagingly written study whose theoretical sharpness and original and meticulous research show Havana to be a veritable, if unlikely, American icon."--Roberto Ignacio Diaz, University of Southern California
--Roberto Ignacio D az
"A must-read, must-teach text filled with revelations about the dysfunctional love affair that has preoccupied the United States and Cuba over the last century. There''s no other book like it on the Cuban-American condition. ""Perez Firmat"" delivers all you ever wanted to know about Cuba but were too American and polite to ask."--Virgil Suarez, author of "90 Miles: New and Selected Poem"s
--Virgil Suarez
"A tale of two closely tied cultures, "The Havana Habit" is told with both elan and humor: the author''s take on the latin lover iconography attached to both Fidel and Che is priceless, and like all of this book, both informative and entertaining."--Oscar Hijuelos, author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"
--Oscar Hijuelos
"Mr. Perez Firmat catalogs the ways in which Cuba has influenced American tastes and infiltrated American culture . . . to suggest the pride of place Havana once had in the American imagination."--Eric Felten, "Wall Street Journal"--Eric Felten "Wall Street Journal "
"With elegance and dynamism, Perez Firmat traces the power of stereotypes in Americas construction of things Cuban. If Havana stands for Cuba, Cuba stands for Latin America, and there is no other Latin American nation that has left a deeper imprint in the American imagination."--Diana Sorensen, Harvard University
--Diana Sorensen
--Roberto Ignacio D az
"A must-read, must-teach text filled with revelations about the dysfunctional love affair that has preoccupied the United States and Cuba over the last century. There''s no other book like it on the Cuban-American condition. ""Perez Firmat"" delivers all you ever wanted to know about Cuba but were too American and polite to ask."--Virgil Suarez, author of "90 Miles: New and Selected Poem"s
--Virgil Suarez
"A tale of two closely tied cultures, "The Havana Habit" is told with both elan and humor: the author''s take on the latin lover iconography attached to both Fidel and Che is priceless, and like all of this book, both informative and entertaining."--Oscar Hijuelos, author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"
--Oscar Hijuelos
"Mr. Perez Firmat catalogs the ways in which Cuba has influenced American tastes and infiltrated American culture . . . to suggest the pride of place Havana once had in the American imagination."--Eric Felten, "Wall Street Journal"--Eric Felten "Wall Street Journal "
"With elegance and dynamism, Perez Firmat traces the power of stereotypes in Americas construction of things Cuban. If Havana stands for Cuba, Cuba stands for Latin America, and there is no other Latin American nation that has left a deeper imprint in the American imagination."--Diana Sorensen, Harvard University
--Diana Sorensen
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