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Cuba in the American imagination : metaphor and the imperial ethos / Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

Pérez, Louis A., Jr. 1943- (författare)
ISBN 9780807832165
Publicerad: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008
Engelska xii, 333 pages
Serie: Caravan book
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  • Introduction: The idea of Cuba -- Metaphor between motive and meaning -- Imagining self-interest -- Metaphor as paradigm -- On gratitude as moral currency of empire -- Shifting metaphors, changing meanings: representing revolution -- Through the prism of metaphor: accommodation to empire.
  • "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." "Perez analyzes the dominant images and their political effectiveness 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 metaphor was central to the U.S. imperial project as a way of transforming the pursuit of national self-interest into the lofty, disinterested purpose of moral duty. With particular focus on the pivotal eras of the war of 1898 and the 1959 Cuban revolution, Perez demonstrates that these descriptions served the foreign policy interests of the United States. As charged and coded modes of persuasion and mediation, these images sanctioned and sustained the moral logic of U.S. power over Cuba. Perez further argues that the metaphors in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba were subsequently projected over the world at large."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Politisk kultur  (sao)
Populärkultur  (sao)
Imperialism  (sao)
Allmänna opinionen  (sao)
Metaphor  -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
Imperialism  -- History. (LCSH)
Popular culture  -- United States -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Popular culture  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)
Political culture  -- United States -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Political culture  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)
Public opinion  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
Imperialism.  (fast)
Political culture.  (fast)
Popular culture.  (fast)
Public opinion.  (fast)
Public opinion, American.  (fast)
International relations.  (fast)
Bildliche Darstellung  (gnd)
Imperialismus  (gnd)
Kubabild  (gnd)
Kultur  (gnd)
Metapher  (gnd)
Personifikation  (gnd)
Volkskultur  (gnd)
Beziehung  (gnd)
Metaphor  -- Political aspects. (fast)
Metaforer  -- politiska aspekter (sao)
Public opinion  (LCSH)
Political culture  (LCSH)
Popular culture  (LCSH)
Imperialism  (LCSH)
Förenta staterna  (sao)
Kuba  (sao)
United States  -- Relations -- Cuba. (LCSH)
Cuba  -- Relations -- United States. (LCSH)
Cuba  -- Foreign public opinion, American. (LCSH)
Cuba.  (fast)
United States.  (fast)
USA.  (swd)
Kuba.  (swd)
1800-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

CUBA

Institutionsnamn

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

Klassifikation

E183.8.C9 (LCC)
327.7307291 (DDC)
Ob (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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