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...
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Author: John Patrick Leary
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A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by Leary, John Patrick

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination

Dhs. 332.87

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination

Dhs. 332.87
Author: John Patrick Leary
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 d tente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." John Patrick Leary examines representations of uneven development in Latin America across a variety of genres and media, from canonical fiction and poetry to cinema, photography, journalism, popular song, travel narratives, and development theory.

For the United States, Latin America has figured variously as good neighbor and insurgent threat, as its possible future and a remnant of its past. By illuminating the conventional ways in which Americans have imagined their place in the hemisphere, the author shows how the popular image of the United States as a modern, exceptional nation has been produced by a century of encounters that travelers, writers, radicals, filmmakers, and others have had with Latin America. Drawing on authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, Leary argues that Latin America has figured in U.S. culture not just as an exotic "other" but as the familiar reflection of the United States' own regional, racial, class, and political inequalities.



Author: John Patrick Leary
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 11/10/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.09h x 6.07w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780813939162

About the Author

John Patrick Leary is Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University.


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