A cultural history of underdevelopment : Latin America in the U.S. imagination /
"A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New World studies.
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Table of 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.