Cuba in the American Imagination. Metaphor and Imperial Ethos

Pérez draws on texts and visual materials produced by American officials, journalists, historians, poets, travelers, missionaries in order to show how economic self-interest and national security are transformed through these metaphors into a national narrative of the exercise of national power with...

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Published in:Caribe (Milwaukee, Wis.) Wis.), 2008, Vol.11 (2), p.122
Main Author: Caballero, Benjamín Torres
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Castro, Fidel
Imagination
Metaphor
Morality
Neighborhoods
Power
Race
Self interest
Sovereignty
Women
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Summary:Pérez draws on texts and visual materials produced by American officials, journalists, historians, poets, travelers, missionaries in order to show how economic self-interest and national security are transformed through these metaphors into a national narrative of the exercise of national power with selfless intent. [...]the Teller Amendment, in its total disregard for those interests, was seen by the administration's supporters in Congress as a grave mistake. According to Pérez many Cubans agreed with General Enrique Collazos on the degree to which and the reasons why Cubans should be grateful for Americans for their liberation: "The appreciation demonstrated by the Americans to the French ought to serve as the model with which Cubans should demonstrate to the American people." [...]Pérez draws parallels between the American intervention in Cuba and the Iraq War, with the United States perceiving it use of national power now in the same light it did back in 1898, as employed in the pursuit of a disinterested moral duty.
ISSN:1099-6451