Havana Is Waiting And Other Plays
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Havana is Waiting and Other Plays
Author | : Eduardo Machado |
Publsiher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559366601 |
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Recent works from the Cuban American playwright.
Havana is Waiting
Author | : Eduardo Machado |
Publsiher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780573660443 |
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For three male actors and a percussion player.
Waiting For Snow In Havana
Author | : Carlos Eire |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781471108358 |
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A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba s Children
Author | : Deborah Shnookal |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781683401995 |
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This in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in U.S.-Cuba relations sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied children to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Operation Pedro Pan is often remembered within the U.S. as an urgent “rescue” mission, but Deborah Shnookal points out that a multitude of complex factors drove the exodus, including Cold War propaganda and the Catholic Church’s opposition to the island’s new government. Shnookal illustrates how and why Cold War scare tactics were so effective in setting the airlift in motion, focusing on their context: the rapid and profound social changes unleashed by the 1959 Revolution, including the mobilization of 100,000 Cuban teenagers in the 1961 national literacy campaign. Other reforms made by the revolutionary government affected women, education, religious schools, and relations within the family and between the races. Shnookal exposes how, in its effort to undermine support for the revolution, the U.S. government manipulated the aspirations and insecurities of more affluent Cubans. She traces the parallel stories of the young “Pedro Pans” separated from their families—in some cases indefinitely—in what is often regarded in Cuba as a mass “kidnapping” and the children who stayed and joined the literacy brigades. These divergent journeys reveal many underlying issues in the historically fraught relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and much about the profound social revolution that took place on the island after 1959. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Performance in the Borderlands
Author | : R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010-11-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780230294554 |
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A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.
Embodied Economies
Author | : Israel Reyes |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781978827851 |
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Embodied Economies compares works of Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater that explore the pitfalls and successes of economic upward mobility in diasporic communities. Each chapter compares two works in a counterpoint analysis that reveals the contradictions of using Latinx Caribbean culture to get ahead in the competitive fields of education, business, entertainment, and finance.
The Floating Island Plays
Author | : Eduardo Machado |
Publsiher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559367004 |
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Includes The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane and Broken Eggs.
Waiting Room
Author | : Diane Flacks |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1770915648 |
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With wry humor and sharp insight, Waiting Room examines medical ethics and compassion in critical situations.