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A Cultural History of Underdevelopment Latin America in the U.S. Imagination / John Patrick Leary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leary, John Patrick, 1979- author.
- Series:
- New World studies.
- New world studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--United States--History.
- Public opinion.
- Latin America--Foreign public opinion, American--History.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--Latin America.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- culture not just as an exotic "other" but as the familiar reflection of the United States' own regional, racial, class, and political inequalities.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Latin America and the meanings of "underdevelopment" in the United States
- Latin America as anachronism: the Cuban campaign for annexation and a future safe for slavery, 1848-1856
- Latin America as nature: U.S. travel writing and the invention of tropical underdevelopment
- Latin America at war: the yellow press from Mulberry Street to Cuba
- Latin America and Bohemia: Latinophilia and the revitalization of U.S. culture
- Latin America, in solidarity: Havana reads the Harlem Renaissance
- Latin America in revolution: the politics and erotics of Latin American revolutions
- Coda: the places of the "third world" in contemporary U.S culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813939179
- 0813939178
- OCLC:
- 959830896
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