[PDF.49uh] Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

[PDF.zi51] Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

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 | #1030764 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2011-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.87 x6.14l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Cuba and how the politicians of old and some of new|By Sumaya Conners|Went to Cuba and so true how Americans, especially those in Dade County Florida look at Cuba as their little plaything to be punished and rewarded at will.
In talking to people in Cuba that is how they perceive how their wealthy neighbors again specifically those in Florida look at them, children that ne| |[A] brilliant and intellectually challenging analysis of the metaphors that have shaped and informed the American view of Cuba over the last 200 years. . . . An essential book for those seriously interested in a deep understanding of Cuba-U.S. relations.--Prog

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. Pérez 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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