Wandering in Cuba: Revolution and Beyond: 6 (Wanderland Writers)

Once again workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar take Wanderland Writers and head south to explore--this time to Cuba an island country that has paid a high price for self-determination: revolution isolation and hardship. But somehow this nation and its amazing people continue to reinvent themselves and fascinate visitors with their marvelous creativity and vitality. Wander with the contributors from city to countryside enjoying the history the rhythms the tastes the sights and the soul of this intriguing island nation. Everywhere of course they encountered its Revolution and recorded their understanding of its triumphs and failures. They met and wrote about traditional Cuba: its heroes--José Martí Fidel Che Hemingway--and its enduring culture as found in food music and its African-based religion Santería. But they also experienced Cuba in its present reality beyond the Revolution. They found poets artists filmmakers and a whole generation of young people who embrace and are shaping Cubas future. You will meet them here.