On Becoming Cuban Identity, Nationality, and Culture

Name: On Becoming Cuban Identity, Nationality, and Culture
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ISBN: 9780807858998

ISBN-10: 0807858994

ISBN-13: 9780807858998

Edition: 2008

Authors: Louis A. Pï¿½rez, Louis A. Pï¿½rez

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With this masterful work, Louis A. Prez 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—Prez 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…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

A former staff writer for the Miami Herald, Rodrigo Lazo is assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.