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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Large Print Edition)

Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Large Print Edition)

Pérez, Louis A., Jr.

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryGeneral United States HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0807886939
ISBN13: 9780807886939
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 584
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.18 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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. Pérez 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, Pérez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba.

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