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Author Pérez, Louis A., Jr., 1943-

Title Cuba in the American imagination : metaphor and the imperial ethos / Louis A. Pérez Jr
Published Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Series Caravan book
Caravan book
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Idea of Cuba; 1 Metaphor between Motive and Meaning; 2 Imagining Self-Interest; 3 Metaphor as Paradigm; 4 On Gratitude as Moral Currency of Empire; 5 Shifting Metaphors, Changing Meanings: Representing Revolution; 6 Through the Prism of Metaphor: Accommodation to Empire; Notes; Index
Summary 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
Notes "A Caravan book"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-325) and index
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Subject Metaphor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Imperialism -- History
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Public opinion -- United States -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Imperialism
Metaphor -- Political aspects
Political culture
Popular culture
Public opinion
Public opinion, American
International relations
Bildliche Darstellung
Imperialismus
Kubabild
Kultur
Metapher
Personifikation
Volkskultur
Beziehung
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Cuba
Cuba -- Relations -- United States
Cuba -- Foreign public opinion, American
Subject Cuba
United States
Kuba
USA
Kuba.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008000078
ISBN 9780807886946
0807886947
9781469603773
1469603772