Havana, City of the Dead. By LARRY CATÁ BACKER

Larry Catá Backer
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:16:11 +0000
Dispatches, Havana

Where a city lays its dead to rest says much about the living. This past March, 2017, eleven graduate students from Pennsylvania and I visited two of Havana’s cemeteries: these cities of the dead set in stone a particular vision of the culture and history of the colonial and pre-1959 bourgeoisie on the island; one …