On Becoming Cuban : Identity, Nationality, and Culture

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perez, Louis A.

Pâerez, Louis A., Author.

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series On becoming Cuban

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuba--Civilization--American influences.

Cuba--Relations--United States.

Nationalism--Cuba--History.

United States--Relations--Cuba.

Nationalism--History--Cuba.

Nationalism.

Cuba.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Cuba--Civilization--American influences.

Cuba--Relations--United States.

Nationalism--Cuba--History.

United States--Relations--Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Other Title:

On Becoming Cuban

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilater

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Binding Familiarities; Sources of the Beginning; Defining Differences; Meanings in Transition; Toward Definition; Affirmation of Affinity; Nationality in Formation; CHAPTER 2. Persistence of Patterns; The Long War; Design without a Plan; The Order of the New; Terms of Adaptation; CHAPTER 3. Image of Identity; Travel as Transformation; Representation of Rhythm; CHAPTER 4. Points of Contact, Sources of Conflict; The Meaning of the Mill; The Presence of the Naval Station; The Evangelical Mission

Baseball and BecomingCHAPTER 5. Sources of Possession; Between Image and Imagining; The Promise of Possibilities; Configurations of Nationality; CHAPTER 6. Assembling Alternatives; In Pursuit of Purpose; Between Arrangement and Arrival; Miami Meditations; CHAPTER 7. Illusive Expectations; The Reality of Experience; Lengthening Shadows; Revolution; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890884091

9781469601410

1469601419

OCLC:

798535460