02727nam 2200565 450 991078761240332120230803195326.00-8173-8743-9(CKB)2670000000529384(EBL)1644078(SSID)ssj0001132429(PQKBManifestationID)11729098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132429(PQKBWorkID)11147593(PQKB)10349873(MiAaPQ)EBC1644078(OCoLC)871781778(MdBmJHUP)muse32937(Au-PeEL)EBL1644078(CaPaEBR)ebr10845673(EXLCZ)99267000000052938420140317h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe island called paradise Cuba in history, literature, and the arts /Philip D. BeidlerTuscaloosa, Alabama :University Alabama Press,2014.©20141 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1820-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 U.S. Cuba first entered Beidler's consciousness in the early 1960's when he watched with mesmerized anxiety the televised reports of the Cuban missile crisis, a conflict that reduced a...National characteristics, CubanCubaIn popular cultureCubaIn literatureCubaIn artNational characteristics, Cuban.972.91Beidler Philip D.986352MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787612403321The island called paradise3776292UNINA