Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807872109)

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.

Author: Louis A. Jr. P駻ez
ISBN-10: 0807872105
ISBN-13: 9780807872109
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d