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Cuba 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, L...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Univ. of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.