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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial EthosCuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

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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