The Cuban Post-Socialist Exotic
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
978-3-86821-769-8 (ISBN)
Contents
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................. vii
1.Introduction .................................................................................................... 1
2.Theoretical Approach and Methodology ........................................................ 4
3.On Travel Writing .......................................................................................... 10
4.Towards a U.S. American Mission ................................................................. 15
4.1.Civil Religion ....................................................................................... 15
4.2.Manifest Destiny .................................................................................. 19
4.3.The Cuban War of Independence ......................................................... 24
5.Othering Discourses ....................................................................................... 26
5.1.Tropicalization and the Tropical Sublime ............................................ 26
5.1.1.The Cuban Revolution of 1959 ............................................................. 29
5.1.2.Cuba in U.S. Caricatures ...................................................................... 34
5.1.3.Conceptual Metaphors .......................................................................... 36
5.1.4.Metaphors of Cuba in the U.S. American Imagination ......................... 38
5.2.Racialized Erotics ................................................................................ 47
6.Othering Discourses in Travel Literature ....................................................... 53
6.1.Latin America through the Eyes of the European Conquista ................ 53
6.2.Representations of Cuba in Nineteenth-Century United States ............ 61
6.3.Early Twentieth Century ...................................................................... 71
6.4.The Cuban Revolution in U.S. American Travel Literature ................. 80
7.Post-Socialist Nostalgia .................................................................................. 89
8.The Corpus of Travel Narratives .................................................................... 97
9.This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives by Ben Corbett ............................ 101
10.Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island by Lea Aschkenas .................... 127
11.Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling through Castro's Cuba by C. P. Baker ........... 151
12.Conversations with Cuba by C. Peter Ripley ................................................. 174
13.Real Life in Castro's Cuba by Catherine Moses ............................................ 194
14.Further Travel Narratives on the Special Period ............................................. 211
15.Synthesis and Conclusion ............................................................................... 221
Epilogue .................................................................................................................. 231
Works Cited ............................................................................................................ 232
Further Reading ....................................................................................................... 248
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos ; 22 |
| Verlagsort | Trier |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 428 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Schlagworte | Aschkenas, Lea • Corbett, Ben • Cuba • Cuban Post-Socialist Exotic • Cuban Revolution • Inter-American Studies • Moses, Catherine • Travel writing • U.S. American Travel Literature |
| ISBN-10 | 3-86821-769-X / 386821769X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-86821-769-8 / 9783868217698 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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