Memory and a Hard Place: Revisiting Central Havana

Wyndham, MM; Read, P

Memory and a Hard Place: Revisiting Central Havana

Wyndham, MM

Read, P

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Publisher:: UTS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Portal, 2008, 5 (1), pp. 1 - 16
Issue Date:: 2008-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wyndham, MM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6496-8753	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Read, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Portal, 2008, 5 (1), pp. 1 - 16	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1449-2490	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Raul and Manolo are two Cuban men in their late sixties. Manolo left soon after Castros triumph to become a television celebrity in Miami. He returned in 1991 to make a clandestine film about the city which once was his. Raul never left his decaying city. He applauded the revolution, but little by little his enthusiasm soured. The paper examines the relationship of the two men to what was once the ultra modern Central Havana of the mid-1950s. Manolos froze on the day he left: his filmed city is silent, immobile, full of ghosts, almost empty, ugly, ruined. Manolos Central Havana processes and changes, it is noisy, busy, - but also it is ugly and ruined. Both lament the city as it once was. Only Raul sees hope of reconciliation	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Portal	en_US
dc.title	Memory and a Hard Place: Revisiting Central Havana	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

Raul and Manolo are two Cuban men in their late sixties. Manolo left soon after Castros triumph to become a television celebrity in Miami. He returned in 1991 to make a clandestine film about the city which once was his. Raul never left his decaying city. He applauded the revolution, but little by little his enthusiasm soured. The paper examines the relationship of the two men to what was once the ultra modern Central Havana of the mid-1950s. Manolos froze on the day he left: his filmed city is silent, immobile, full of ghosts, almost empty, ugly, ruined. Manolos Central Havana processes and changes, it is noisy, busy, - but also it is ugly and ruined. Both lament the city as it once was. Only Raul sees hope of reconciliation

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