The Havana Habit

Informationen zum Autor A poet! fiction writer! memoirist! and scholar! Gustavo Perez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Klappentext Cuba! an island 750 miles long! with a population of about 11 million! lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title! the author probes the importance of Havana! and of greater Cuba! in the cultural history of the United States. Zusammenfassung Cuba! an island 750 miles long! with a population of about 11 million! lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title! the author probes the importance of Havana! and of greater Cuba! in the cultural history of the United States.

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A poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and scholar, Gustavo Perez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Perez Firmat is the author of eighteen books; his study of Cuban American culture, Life on the Hyphen, was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden University Press National Book Award.

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Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title, the author probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States.