On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture - Rilegato

Perez, Louis A.

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ISBN 10: 0807824879 ISBN 13: 9780807824870

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1999

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With this masterful work, Louis A. PŽrez Jr. will transform 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?PŽrez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, PŽrez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.

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Explores the rich cultural ties between Cuba and the United States and reveals their startling influence on the way Cubans see themselves as a people and as a nation. 'In a sweeping multilayered history, PŽrez explores the intertwined lives of Cubans and Americans from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s to show how deeply each nation influenced the other. Using an array of sources, from music to oral history to popular magazines and movies, he provides a convincing and kaleidoscopic interpretation filled with colorful personalities. He concludes with a brilliant discussion of the cultural context for Castro·s uprising.

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Book by Louis A Perez Jr

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• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807824879
• ISBN 13: 9780807824870
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 579