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Author Beidler, Philip D., author.

Title The island called paradise : Cuba in history, literature, and the arts / Philip D. Beidler
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages)
Contents Introduction : Cuba and the imagination -- Romancing Cecilia Valdes -- Un militar espanol de origen venezolano -- Mambises in whiteface -- The ghost of Walker Evans -- Ignacio Pineiro, George Gershwin, and the Schillinger system -- The secret life of Ricky Ricardo -- Good neighbor Batista -- The two Ernestos -- Steverino in Gangsterland -- Why no one in Havana speaks of Graham Greene -- Inspector Renko on the Malecon -- The example of Yoani Sanchez -- Conclusion : the autumn of the comandante
Summary A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa. In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery of the vast, rich, and astonishing history of the island of Cuba and the interrelatedness of Cuba and the US. Cuba first entered Beidler's consciousness in the early 1960s when he watched with mesmerized anxiety the televised reports of the Cuban missile crisis, a conflict that reduced a multifaceted, centuries-old history
Notes Author's name appears on jacket; Beidler appears on spine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index
Notes English
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Subject National characteristics, Cuban.
Cubans.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Cubans
Literature
National characteristics, Cuban
SUBJECT Cuba -- In popular culture
Cuba -- In literature
Cuba -- In art
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817387433
0817387439