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CUBA IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
METAPHOR AND THE IMPERIAL ETHOS |
| By: |
Louis Perez Jr. |
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Paperback |
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£38.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0807872105 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780807872109 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 2011 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the US by conjuring up a variety of striking images - Cuba as a woman, a neighbour, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterisations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. |
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For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba. |For more than two hundred often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island. |
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US |
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The University of North Carolina Press |
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