Aerial Imagination in Cuba

By Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, José Manuel Fernández Lavado (illustrator),

Book cover of Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops

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Aerial Imagination in Cuba is a visual, ethnographic, sensorial, and poetic engagement with how Cubans imagine the sky as a medium that allows things to circulate. What do wi-fi antennas, cactuses, pigeons, lottery, and congas have in common? This book offers a series of illustrated ethno-fictional stories to explore various…

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Alejandra Bronfman

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What happens when you shift your gaze to the sky? This ethnography of the Cuban sky finds surprising things there: cacti, pigeons, and the internet. The author of this beautifully illustrated ethno-fiction tells stories that make Cubans of today come alive in defiance of the usual clichés and stereotypes.

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