Anke Birkenmaier is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University.

Preface Introduction: Beyond the Ruins / Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield Part I. Mapping Havana: Citizenship and the City 1. Visits to a Non-Place: Havana and Its Representation(s) / Velia Cecilia Bobes; 2. The Bitter Trinquennium and the Dystopian City: Autopsy of a Utopia / Mario Coyula; 3. Barbacoas: Havana's New Inward Frontier / Patricio Del Real and Joseph Scarpaci; 4. The "Slums" of Havana / Jill Hamberg; 5. Havana and Its Landscapes: A Vision for Future Reconstruction of Cuban Cities / Nicolas Quintana; 6. The Illegible City: Havana after the Messiah / Rafael Rojas A Photo-Essay: Havana / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Part II. Havana's Shifting Margins 7. The City in Midair / Emma Alvarez-Tabio Albo; 8. Made in Havana City: Rap Music, Space, and Racial Politics / Sujatha Fernandes; 9. Urban Performance Pieces in Fragmented Form: A Reading of Pedro Juan Gutierrez and Antonio Jose Ponte / Cecelia Lawless; 10. Topographies of Cosmonauts in Havana: Proyecto Vostok and Insausti's Existen / Jacqueline Loss 11. Touring Havana in the Work of Ronaldo Menendez / Laura Redruello Part III. Coda 12. La Habana: City and Archive / Antonio Jose Ponte; 13. Bitter Daiquiris: A Crystal Chronicle / Jose Quiroga Glossary; References; Contributors; Index