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Ottawa launch for Cuba Beyond the Beach
October 05, 2016
Join Karen Dubinsky for the Ottawa launch of Cuba beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana at Octopus Books!
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. Spanning a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors—go about their daily lives. This book is a compendium of conversations with Cuban people rather than politicians.
As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate and learn from in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.
Karen Dubinsky started visiting Cuba in 1978, and has lived in Havana intermittently since 2004. She is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University and co-teaches a course in Havana for Queen’s students. She is the author of The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls.
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Octopus Books, upstairs
Location: 251 Bank Street Ottawa, ON
Website: http://www.btlbooks.com/events/view/ottawa-launch-for-cuba-beyond-the-beach
Categories: Arts & Culture
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